Acting · Bogorodsk, Gorkovskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR · Born August 30, 1934
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.
TVTo Remember
1993
as archivefootage
MovieTrial on the Road
1986
as Petushkov
MovieThe Train Has Stopped
1982
as Malinin, a journalist
MoviePeasants
1982
as artist
MovieScattered Nest
1981
as Neznakomiy strannik
MovieThe Secret of the Notebook
1981
as Martyn Martynych
MovieAgony: The Life and Death of Rasputin
1981
as Colonel
MovieBoomerang
1981
as McClain - sheriff
MovieThe Mysterious Old Man
1981
MovieIz zhizni otdykhayushchikh
1981
as Tolik Chikin
MovieSergey Ivanovich Retires
1981
MovieThe Hat
1981
as Anya's stepfather
MovieTwenty Six Days in the Life of Dostoevsky
1981
as Fyodor Dostoevsky
MovieKhatanbaatar
1981
as Bakich
MoviePeople's Khatanbaatar
1981
as Bakich
MovieHe Foretells Victory
1979
MovieStalker
1979
as Writer
MovieTrasa
1979
as Lev Nikolayevich Slivin
MovieThe Bodyguard
1979
as Sultan Nazar
MovieThe Turning Point
1978
as Kostik
MovieCash Collector's Bag
1977
as Ivan Timofeyevich
MovieYuliya Vrevskaya
1977
as Mikhail Pavlov
MovieThe Legend of Till
1977
as Fishmonger
MovieThe Ascent
1977
as Portnov, collaborationist interrogator
MovieWhile the Mountains Still Stand...
1977
as следователь
MovieThere, Beyond the Horizon
1976
as Bochazhnikov
MovieTrust
1976
as Bochazhnikov
MovieBetween Sky and Earth
1976
MovieThe Balloonist
1975
MovieThe Last Day of Winter
1975
as Соловцов
MovieMirror
1975
as Forensic Doctor
MovieMemory
1975
MovieAt Home Among Strangers, a Stranger Among His Own
1974
as Sarychev
MovieUnder a Stone Sky
1974
as Хофмайер (немецкий полковник)
MovieGrandmaster
1973
MovieNotches For Memory
1973
MovieOh, Cinema, Cinema!
1973
as Self
MovieThe Love of Mankind
1973
as Dmitry Kalmykov
MovieSolaris
1972
as Dr. Sartorius
MovieThe Prince and the Pauper
1972
as лорд Сент-Джон
MovieIn the azure steppe
1971
MovieOne Chance in One Thousand
1969
as Captain Migunko
MovieAnyuta's Way
1968
as Stepan - head of the food detachment
MovieNo Path Through Fire
1967
as Commissar Yevstryukov
MovieThe Three Andreis
1966
as Self
MovieAndrei Rublev
1966
as Andrei Rublev
MovieThe Kurt Clausewitz Case
1964
