Anatoliy Solonitsyn

Biography

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.

Movies & TV Shows

1. Stalker (1979) — Writer
2. Solaris (1972) — Dr. Sartorius
3. Mirror (1975) — Forensic Doctor
4. Andrei Rublev (1966) — Andrei Rublev
5. The Ascent (1977) — Portnov, collaborationist interrogator
6. At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger Among His Own (1974) — Sarychev
7. Trial on the Road (1986) — Petushkov
8. Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin (1981) — Colonel
9. Peasants (1982) — artist
10. No Path Through Fire (1967) — Commissar Yevstryukov
11. The Train Has Stopped (1982) — Malinin, a journalist
12. Iz zhizni otdykhayushchikh (1981) — Tolik Chikin
13. Twenty Six Days in the Life of Dostoevsky (1981) — Fyodor Dostoevsky
14. The Turning Point (1978) — Kostik
15. The Bodyguard (1979) — Sultan Nazar
16. Under a Stone Sky (1974) — Хофмайер (немецкий полковник)
17. The Legend of Till (1977) — Fishmonger
18. One Chance in One Thousand (1969) — Captain Migunko
19. To Remember (1993) — archivefootage
20. Trust (1976) — Bochazhnikov
21. The Love of Mankind (1973) — Dmitry Kalmykov
22. The Prince and the Pauper (1972) — лорд Сент-Джон
23. Grandmaster (1973)
24. Yuliya Vrevskaya (1977) — Mikhail Pavlov
25. The Hat (1981) — Anya's stepfather
26. Sergey Ivanovich Retires (1981)
27. Trasa (1979) — Lev Nikolayevich Slivin
28. The Secret of the Notebook (1981) — Martyn Martynych
29. Cash Collector's Bag (1977) — Ivan Timofeyevich
30. While the Mountains Still Stand... (1977) — следователь
31. The Three Andreis (1966) — Self
32. The Kurt Clausewitz Case (1964)
33. The Balloonist (1975)
34. The Mysterious Old Man (1981)
35. The Last Day of Winter (1975) — Соловцов
36. He Foretells Victory (1979)
37. There, Beyond the Horizon (1976) — Bochazhnikov
38. In the azure steppe (1971)
39. Boomerang (1981) — McClain - sheriff
40. Anyuta's Way (1968) — Stepan - head of the food detachment