Anatoliy Solonitsyn

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Bogorodsk, Gorkovskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR, 1934-08-30

Died: 1982-06-11

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1964	The Kurt Clausewitz Case		0
2	1966	Andrei Rublev	Andrei Rublev	80
3	1966	The Three Andreis	Self	60
4	1967	No Path Through Fire	Commissar Yevstryukov	56
5	1968	Анютина дорога	Stepan - head of the food detachment	0
6	1968	Анютина дорога	Chief	0
7	1968	One Chance in One Thousand	Captain Migunko	35
8	1971	In the azure steppe		0
9	1972	The Prince and the Pauper	лорд Сент-Джон	50
10	1972	Solaris	Dr. Sartorius	78
11	1972	The Love of Mankind	Dmitry Kalmykov	37
12	1973	Oh, Cinema, Cinema!	Self	0
13	1973	Notches For Memory		0
14	1973	Grandmaster		43
15	1974	Under a Stone Sky	Хофмайер (немецкий полковник)	70
16	1974	At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger Among His Own	Сарычев	65
17	1975	Memory		0
18	1975	Mirror	Forensic Doctor	80
19	1975	The Last Day of Winter	Соловцов	0
20	1975	The Balloonist		0
21	1976	Between Sky and Earth		0
22	1976	Trust	Bochazhnikov	35
23	1976	There, Beyond the Horizon	Bochazhnikov	0
24	1977	While the Mountains Still Stand...	следователь	60
25	1977	The Ascent	Павел Гаврилович Портнов, следователь у фашистов	78
26	1977	The Legend of Till	Fishmonger	47
27	1977	Yuliya Vrevskaya	Mikhail Pavlov	33
28	1977	Cash Collector's Bag	Ivan Timofeyevich	35
29	1978	The Turning Point	Kostik	57
30	1979	The Bodyguard	Sultan Nazar	45
31	1979	Trasa	Lev Nikolayevich Slivin	0
32	1979	Stalker	Writer	81
33	1979	He Foretells Victory		90
34	1981	People's Khatanbaatar	Bakich	0
35	1981	Khatanbaatar	Bakich	0
36	1981	Twenty Six Days in the Life of Dostoevsky	Fyodor Dostoevsky	45
37	1981	The Hat	Anya's stepfather	58
38	1981	Sergey Ivanovich Retires		65
39	1981	The Mysterious Old Man		0
40	1981	Iz zhizni otdykhayushchikh	Tolik Chikin	62
41	1981	Boomerang	McClain - sheriff	90
42	1981	Peasants	Pavlik's father	64
43	1981	Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin	Colonel	66
44	1981	The Secret of the Notebook	Martyn Martynych	50
45	1982	The Train Has Stopped	Malinin, a journalist	54
46	1986	Trial on the Road	Igor Leonidovich Petushkov	69

Anatoliy Solonitsyn

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