Anatoliy Solonitsyn
Acting
Born: August 30, 1934 · Bogorodsk, Gorkovskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR
Died: June 11, 1982 (aged 47)
Highest Rated
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.
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Movies (45)
Stalker
Writer
Solaris
Dr. Sartorius
Andrei Rublev
Andrei Rublev
Mirror
Forensic Doctor
The Ascent
Portnov, Collaborationist Interrogator
Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin
Colonel
The Legend of Thyl
Fishmonger
The Love of Mankind
Dmitry Kalmykov
The Prince and the Pauper
лорд Сент-Джон
At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger Among His Own
Sarychev
No Path Through Fire
Commissar Yevstryukov
There, Beyond the Horizon
Bochazhnikov
Trial on the Road
Petushkov
Between Sky and Earth
1976
The Hat
Anya's stepfather
One Chance in One Thousand
Captain Migunko
The Train Has Stopped
Malinin, a journalist
Under a Stone Sky
Хофмайер (немецкий полковник)
Trust
Bochazhnikov
Iz zhizni otdykhayushchikh
Tolik Chikin
In the azure steppe
1971
The Balloonist
1975
The Turning Point
Kostik
While the Mountains Still Stand...
следователь
Yuliya Vrevskaya
Mikhail Pavlov
26 Days of Dostoyevsky's Life
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Bodyguard
Sultan Nazar
The Kurt Clausewitz Case
1964
Trasa
Lev Nikolayevich Slivin
Grandmaster
1973
Memory
1975
The Last Day of Winter
Соловцов
Sergey Ivanovich Retires
1981
He Foretells Victory
1979
Cash Collector's Bag
Ivan Timofeyevich
Notches For Memory
1973
Peasants
Artist
Anyuta's Way
Stepan - head of the food detachment
Anyuta's Way
Chief
The Secret of the Notebook
Martyn Martynych
Scattered Nest
Neznakomiy strannik
Boomerang
McClain - sheriff
The Mysterious Old Man
1981
Khatanbaatar
Bakich
People's Khatanbaatar
Bakich
