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Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
August 30, 1934
Place of Birth:
Bogorodsk, Gorkovskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR
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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.
Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1986 | Trial on the Road | Igor Leonidovich Petushkov |
| 1982 | The Train Has Stopped | Malinin, a journalist |
| 1981 | The Mysterious Old Man | |
| 1981 | Iz zhizni otdykhayushchikh | Tolik Chikin |
| 1981 | Peasants | Pavlik's father |
| 1981 | The Hat | Anya's stepfather |
| 1981 | The Secret of the Notebook | Martyn Martynych |
| 1981 | Twenty Six Days in the Life of Dostoevsky | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| 1981 | Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin | Colonel |
| 1981 | Sergey Ivanovich Retires | |
| 1981 | Khatanbaatar | Bakich |
| 1981 | People's Khatanbaatar | Bakich |
| 1981 | Boomerang | McClain - sheriff |
| 1979 | Stalker | Writer |
| 1979 | Trasa | Lev Nikolayevich Slivin |
| 1979 | He Foretells Victory | |
| 1979 | The Bodyguard | Sultan Nazar |
| 1978 | The Turning Point | Kostik |
| 1977 | The Ascent | Павел Гаврилович Портнов, следователь у фашистов |
| 1977 | Cash Collector's Bag | Ivan Timofeyevich |
| 1977 | While the Mountains Still Stand... | следователь |
| 1977 | Yuliya Vrevskaya | Mikhail Pavlov |
| 1977 | The Legend of Till | Fishmonger |
| 1976 | Trust | Bochazhnikov |
| 1976 | There, Beyond the Horizon | Bochazhnikov |
| 1976 | Between Sky and Earth | |
| 1975 | The Balloonist | |
| 1975 | Mirror | Forensic Doctor |
| 1975 | The Last Day of Winter | Соловцов |
| 1975 | Memory | |
| 1974 | At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger Among His Own | Сарычев |
| 1974 | Under a Stone Sky | Хофмайер (немецкий полковник) |
| 1973 | Grandmaster | |
| 1973 | Oh, Cinema, Cinema! | Self |
| 1973 | Notches For Memory | |
| 1972 | Solaris | Dr. Sartorius |
| 1972 | The Love of Mankind | Dmitry Kalmykov |
| 1972 | The Prince and the Pauper | лорд Сент-Джон |
| 1971 | In the azure steppe | |
| 1968 | One Chance in One Thousand | Captain Migunko |
| 1968 | Анютина дорога | Stepan - head of the food detachment |
| 1968 | Анютина дорога | Chief |
| 1967 | No Path Through Fire | Commissar Yevstryukov |
| 1966 | Andrei Rublev | Andrei Rublev |
| 1966 | The Three Andreis | Self |
| 1964 | The Kurt Clausewitz Case |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1993 | To Remember | archivefootage |