Anatoliy Solonitsyn
Born: 1934-08-30 in Bogorodsk, Gorkovskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR
Died: 1982-06-11
Known For: Acting
Biography
Anatoly Alekseyevich Solonitsyn (August 30, 1934, Bogorodsk – June 11, 1982, Moscow) was a Soviet actor of remarkable intensity and philosophical depth, best known for his collaborations with Andrei Tarkovsky. Born in 1934 in Bogorodsk, he became the face of inner struggle and metaphysical searching in Soviet cinema, most famously portraying Andrei Rublev, the tormented painter of icons, and the introspective Writer in Stalker. Solonitsyn’s performances were marked by a quiet magnetism—his stoic presence and penetrating gaze gave form to Tarkovsky’s spiritual explorations. Though he appeared in a range of Soviet films, his legacy is inseparable from Tarkovsky’s cinema, where he embodied characters wrestling with art, faith, and the weight of history. His life was cut short in 1982 by cancer, yet his work remains timeless—an imprint of the soul etched in celluloid.
Filmography
1993
- To Remember as archivefootage
1986
- Trial on the Road as Petushkov
1982
- Peasants as artist
- The Train Has Stopped as Malinin, a journalist
1981
- Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin as Colonel
- Iz zhizni otdykhayushchikh as Tolik Chikin
- Sergey Ivanovich Retires
- Twenty Six Days in the Life of Dostoevsky as Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Khatanbaatar as Bakich
- Boomerang as McClain - sheriff
- The Secret of the Notebook as Martyn Martynych
- The Hat as Anya's stepfather
- People's Khatanbaatar as Bakich
- The Mysterious Old Man
- Scattered Nest as Neznakomiy strannik
1979
- Stalker as Writer
- The Bodyguard as Sultan Nazar
- Trasa as Lev Nikolayevich Slivin
- He Foretells Victory
1978
- The Turning Point as Kostik
1977
- The Ascent as Portnov, collaborationist interrogator
- The Legend of Till as Fishmonger
- Yuliya Vrevskaya as Mikhail Pavlov
- While the Mountains Still Stand... as следователь
- Cash Collector's Bag as Ivan Timofeyevich
1976
- Between Sky and Earth
- Trust as Bochazhnikov
- There, Beyond the Horizon as Bochazhnikov
1975
- Mirror as Forensic Doctor
- Memory
- The Balloonist
- The Last Day of Winter as Соловцов
1974
- At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger Among His Own as Sarychev
- Under a Stone Sky as Хофмайер (немецкий полковник)
1973
- The Love of Mankind as Dmitry Kalmykov
- Grandmaster
- Notches For Memory
- Oh, Cinema, Cinema! as Self
1972
- Solaris as Dr. Sartorius
- The Prince and the Pauper as лорд Сент-Джон
1971
1969
- One Chance in One Thousand as Captain Migunko
1968
- Anyuta's Way as Stepan - head of the food detachment
1967
- No Path Through Fire as Commissar Yevstryukov
1966
- Andrei Rublev as Andrei Rublev
- The Three Andreis as Self