Anatoliy Solonitsyn
Acting
1934-08-30 · Bogorodsk, Gorkovskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR
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
To Remember
1993 · Series
Trial on the Road
1986 · Movie
The Train Has Stopped
1982 · Movie
Peasants
1982 · Movie
Scattered Nest
1981 · Movie
The Secret of the Notebook
1981 · Movie
Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin
1981 · Movie
Boomerang
1981 · Movie
Iz zhizni otdykhayushchikh
1981 · Movie
The Mysterious Old Man
1981 · Movie
Sergey Ivanovich Retires
1981 · Movie
The Hat
1981 · Movie
Twenty Six Days in the Life of Dostoevsky
1981 · Movie
Khatanbaatar
1981 · Movie
People's Khatanbaatar
1981 · Movie
He Foretells Victory
1979 · Movie
Stalker
1979 · Movie
Trasa
1979 · Movie
The Bodyguard
1979 · Movie
The Turning Point
1978 · Movie
Cash Collector's Bag
1977 · Movie
Yuliya Vrevskaya
1977 · Movie
The Legend of Thyl
1977 · Movie
The Ascent
1977 · Movie
While the Mountains Still Stand...
1977 · Movie
There, Beyond the Horizon
1976 · Movie
Trust
1976 · Movie
Between Sky and Earth
1976 · Movie
The Balloonist
1975 · Movie
The Last Day of Winter
1975 · Movie
Mirror
1975 · Movie
Memory
1975 · Movie
At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger Among His Own
1974 · Movie
Under a Stone Sky
1974 · Movie
Grandmaster
1973 · Movie
Notches For Memory
1973 · Movie
Oh, Cinema, Cinema!
1973 · Movie
The Love of Mankind
1973 · Movie
Solaris
1972 · Movie
The Prince and the Pauper
1972 · Movie
In the azure steppe
1971 · Movie
One Chance in One Thousand
1969 · Movie
Anyuta's Way
1968 · Movie
No Path Through Fire
1967 · Movie
The Three Andreis
1966 · Movie
Andrei Rublev
1966 · Movie
The Kurt Clausewitz Case
1964 · Movie