Anatoliy Solonitsyn
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 (46)
Trial on the Road
1986 · Petushkov
The Train Has Stopped
1982 · Malinin, a journalist
Peasants
1982 · Artist
Scattered Nest
1981 · Neznakomiy strannik
The Secret of the Notebook
1981 · Martyn Martynych
Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin
1981 · Colonel
Boomerang
1981 · McClain - sheriff
The Mysterious Old Man
1981
Iz zhizni otdykhayushchikh
1981 · Tolik Chikin
Sergey Ivanovich Retires
1981
The Hat
1981 · Anya's stepfather
26 Days of Dostoyevsky's Life
1981 · Fyodor Dostoevsky
Khatanbaatar
1981 · Bakich
People's Khatanbaatar
1981 · Bakich
He Foretells Victory
1979
Stalker
1979 · Writer
Trasa
1979 · Lev Nikolayevich Slivin
The Bodyguard
1979 · Sultan Nazar
The Turning Point
1978 · Kostik
Cash Collector's Bag
1977 · Ivan Timofeyevich
Yuliya Vrevskaya
1977 · Mikhail Pavlov
The Legend of Thyl
1977 · Fishmonger
The Ascent
1977 · Portnov, Collaborationist Interrogator
While the Mountains Still Stand...
1977 · следователь
There, Beyond the Horizon
1976 · Bochazhnikov
Trust
1976 · Bochazhnikov
Between Sky and Earth
1976
The Balloonist
1975
The Last Day of Winter
1975 · Соловцов
Mirror
1975 · Forensic Doctor
Memory
1975
At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger Among His Own
1974 · Sarychev
Under a Stone Sky
1974 · Хофмайер (немецкий полковник)
Grandmaster
1973
Notches For Memory
1973
Oh, Cinema, Cinema!
1973 · Self
The Love of Mankind
1973 · Dmitry Kalmykov
Solaris
1972 · Dr. Sartorius
The Prince and the Pauper
1972 · лорд Сент-Джон
In the azure steppe
1971
One Chance in One Thousand
1969 · Captain Migunko
Anyuta's Way
1968 · Stepan - head of the food detachment, Chief
No Path Through Fire
1967 · Commissar Yevstryukov
The Three Andreis
1966 · Self
Andrei Rublev
1966 · Andrei Rublev
The Kurt Clausewitz Case
1964
