Anatoliy Solonitsyn
Known for: Acting
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
Film
Stalker
Writer
1979
Film
The Ascent
Portnov, collaborationist interrogator
1977
Series
To Remember
archivefootage
1993
Film
Mirror
Forensic Doctor
1975
Film
Solaris
Dr. Sartorius
1972
Film
Andrei Rublev
Andrei Rublev
1966
Film
The Love of Mankind
Dmitry Kalmykov
1973
Film
Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin
Colonel
1981
Film
Between Sky and Earth
1976
Film
The Train Has Stopped
Malinin, a journalist
1982
Film
Boomerang
McClain - sheriff
1981
Film
Memory
1975
Film
The Prince and the Pauper
лорд Сент-Джон
1972
Film
Trust
Bochazhnikov
1976
Film
Yuliya Vrevskaya
Mikhail Pavlov
1977
Film
Twenty Six Days in the Life of Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky
1981
Film
There, Beyond the Horizon
Bochazhnikov
1976
Film
Trial on the Road
Petushkov
1986
Film
At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger Among His Own
Sarychev
1974
Film
No Path Through Fire
Commissar Yevstryukov
1967
Film
Trasa
Lev Nikolayevich Slivin
1979
Film
The Legend of Till
Fishmonger
1977
Film
Khatanbaatar
Bakich
1981
Film
The Turning Point
Kostik
1978
Film
The Balloonist
1975
Film
Peasants
artist
1982
Film
One Chance in One Thousand
Captain Migunko
1969
Film
Under a Stone Sky
Хофмайер (немецкий полковник)
1974
Film
In the azure steppe
1971
Film
Iz zhizni otdykhayushchikh
Tolik Chikin
1981
Film
The Hat
Anya's stepfather
1981
Film
The Three Andreis
Self
1966
Film
The Mysterious Old Man
1981
Film
The Secret of the Notebook
Martyn Martynych
1981
Film
Cash Collector's Bag
Ivan Timofeyevich
1977
Film
The Bodyguard
Sultan Nazar
1979
Film
Sergey Ivanovich Retires
1981
Film
People's Khatanbaatar
Bakich
1981
Film
The Kurt Clausewitz Case
1964
Film
Notches For Memory
1973
Film
He Foretells Victory
1979
Film
While the Mountains Still Stand...
следователь
1977
Film
The Last Day of Winter
Соловцов
1975
Film
Grandmaster
1973
Film
Oh, Cinema, Cinema!
Self
1973
Film
Scattered Nest
Neznakomiy strannik
1981
Film
Anyuta's Way
Stepan - head of the food detachment
1968
Film
Anyuta's Way
Chief
1968