Anatoliy Solonitsyn
Actor
August 30, 1934 — June 11, 1982 (47 years)
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.
Known For
Filmography
| 1993 | Chtoby Pomnili · as Archivefootage |
| 1986 | Trial on the Road · as Petushkov |
| 1982 | The Train Has Stopped · as Malinin, A Journalist |
| 1982 | The Hat · as Anya's Stepfather |
| 1982 | Raskidannoye gnezdo · as Neznakomiy Strannik |
| 1981 | Rasputin · as Colonel |
| 1981 | Muzhiki! · as Artist |
| 1981 | Bumerang · as Mcclain - Sheriff |
| 1981 | Scenes from Life of People on Leave · as Tolik Chikin |
| 1981 | Twenty Six Days from the Life of Dostoyevsky · as Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| 1979 | Stalker · as Writer |
| 1979 | Povorot · as Kostik |
| 1979 | Sumka inkassatora · as Ivan Timofeyevich |
| 1979 | The Bodyguard · as Sultan Nazar |
| 1978 | A u nas byla tishina... · as Petrukha |
| 1977 | Legenda o Tile · as Fishmonger |
| 1977 | The Ascent · as Portnov, Collaborationist Interrogator |
| 1976 | Trust · as Bochazhnikov |
| 1975 | |
| 1975 | The Mirror · as Forensic DoctorOn Plex |
| 1974 | At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger Among His Own · as Sarychev |
| 1974 | Under a Stone Sky · as Хофмайер (немецкий Полковник) |
| 1973 | |
| 1973 | Lyubit cheloveka · as Dmitry Kalmykov |
| 1972 | Solaris · as Dr. SartoriusOn Plex |
| 1972 | Prints i nishchiy · as Лорд Сент-Джон |
| 1969 | One Chance in a Thousand · as Captain Migunko |
| 1968 | No Path Through Fire · as Commissar Yevstryukov |
| 1966 | Andrei Rublev · as Andrei Rublev |
| 2019 | Andrey Tarkovsky. A Cinema Prayer · as Self |