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.
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Full filmography
- To Remember (1993) as archivefootage
- Stalker (1979) as Writer
- Mirror (1975) as Forensic Doctor
- Andrei Rublev (1966) as Andrei Rublev
- Solaris (1972) as Dr. Sartorius
- The Ascent (1977) as Portnov, collaborationist interrogator
- The Love of Mankind (1973) as Dmitry Kalmykov
- Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin (1981) as Colonel
- Yuliya Vrevskaya (1977) as Mikhail Pavlov
- Iz zhizni otdykhayushchikh (1981) as Tolik Chikin
- The Legend of Till (1977) as Fishmonger
- Trust (1976) as Bochazhnikov
- The Balloonist (1975)
- No Path Through Fire (1967) as Commissar Yevstryukov
- Trial on the Road (1986) as Petushkov
- One Chance in One Thousand (1969) as Captain Migunko
- The Bodyguard (1979) as Sultan Nazar
- At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger Among His Own (1974) as Sarychev
- There, Beyond the Horizon (1976) as Bochazhnikov
- Between Sky and Earth (1976)
- In the azure steppe (1971)
- Peasants (1982) as artist
- Under a Stone Sky (1974) as Хофмайер (немецкий полковник)
- While the Mountains Still Stand... (1977) as следователь