Anatoliy Solonitsyn
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1934-08-30
Day of Death
1982-06-11 (47 years old)
Place of Birth
Bogorodsk, Gorkovskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR
Anatoliy Solonitsyn
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.
Acting
(1986)
Trial on the Road
as Igor Leonidovich Petushkov
(1982)
The Train Has Stopped
as Malinin, a journalist
(1981)
Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin
as Colonel
(1981)
Iz zhizni otdykhayushchikh
as Tolik Chikin
(1981)
Twenty Six Days in the Life of Dostoevsky
as Fyodor Dostoevsky
(1981)
The Hat
as Anya's stepfather
(1981)
(1981)
Boomerang
as McClain - sheriff
(1981)
Peasants
as Pavlik's father
(1981)
(1981)
The Secret of the Notebook
as Martyn Martynych
(1981)
People's Khatanbaatar
as Bakich
(1981)
Khatanbaatar
as Bakich
(1979)
Stalker
as Writer
(1979)
(1979)
The Bodyguard
as Sultan Nazar
(1979)
Trasa
as Lev Nikolayevich Slivin
(1978)
The Turning Point
as Kostik
(1977)
The Ascent
as Павел Гаврилович Портнов, следователь у фашистов
(1977)
The Legend of Till
as Fishmonger
(1977)
Yuliya Vrevskaya
as Mikhail Pavlov
(1977)
While the Mountains Still Stand...
as следователь
(1977)
Cash Collector's Bag
as Ivan Timofeyevich
(1976)
Trust
as Bochazhnikov
(1976)
There, Beyond the Horizon
as Bochazhnikov
(1976)
(1975)
Mirror
as Forensic Doctor
(1975)
(1975)
(1975)
The Last Day of Winter
as Соловцов
(1974)
(1974)
Under a Stone Sky
as Хофмайер (немецкий полковник)
(1973)
(1973)
(1973)
Oh, Cinema, Cinema!
as Self
(1972)
Solaris
as Dr. Sartorius
(1972)
The Love of Mankind
as Dmitry Kalmykov
(1972)
The Prince and the Pauper
as лорд Сент-Джон
(1971)
(1968)
One Chance in One Thousand
as Captain Migunko
(1968)
Анютина дорога
as Stepan - head of the food detachment
(1968)
Анютина дорога
as Chief
(1967)
No Path Through Fire
as Commissar Yevstryukov
(1966)
Andrei Rublev
as Andrei Rublev
(1966)
The Three Andreis
as Self
(1964)