Name
Anatoliy Solonitsyn
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1934-08-30
Deathday
1982-06-11 (48 years old)
Place of Birth
Bogorodsk, Gorkovskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR
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
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An expansive Russian drama, this film focuses on the life of revered religious icon painte...
7.9
During a freezing WWII winter, two Soviet partisans on a mission to gather food contend wi...
5.5
In this drama with socio-political nuances, a heroic engineer is able to save the passenge...
6.8
As an adviser to the emperor Nicholas II, mystic Grigori Rasputin holds great influence ov...
5.909
Based on the novel by Charles de Coster "The Legend of Thyl Ulenspiegel and Lamme Goedzak,...
6.6
Following the Russian Civil War, a loyal Red, Shilov, must prove he is at home among stran...
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A talented girl is trying to find happiness amidst the Russian revolution of 1917 and the ...
- 1966 Andrei Rublev as Andrei Rublev
- 1972 Solaris as Dr. Sartorius
- 1979 Stalker as Writer
- 1976 Trust as Bochazhnikov
- 1964 The Kurt Clausewitz Case
- 1973 Grandmaster
- 1975 The Balloonist
- 1979 Trasa as Lev Nikolayevich Slivin
- 1981 The Mysterious Old Man
- 1974 At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger Among His Own as Sarychev
- 1986 Trial on the Road as Petushkov
- 1967 No Path Through Fire as Commissar Yevstryukov
- 1969 One Chance in One Thousand as Captain Migunko
- 1982 The Train Has Stopped as Malinin, a journalist
- 1977 The Ascent as Portnov, Collaborationist Interrogator
- 1975 Mirror as Forensic Doctor
- 1981 Iz zhizni otdykhayushchikh as Tolik Chikin
- 1982 Peasants as Artist
- 1968 Anyuta's Way as Stepan - head of the food detachment
- 1981 The Hat as Anya's stepfather
- 1981 The Secret of the Notebook as Martyn Martynych
- 1978 The Turning Point as Kostik
- 1975 The Last Day of Winter as Соловцов
- 1973 The Love of Mankind as Dmitry Kalmykov
- 1981 26 Days of Dostoyevsky's Life as Fyodor Dostoevsky
- 1977 Cash Collector's Bag as Ivan Timofeyevich
- 1977 While the Mountains Still Stand... as следователь
- 1981 Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin as Colonel
- 1974 Under a Stone Sky as Хофмайер (немецкий полковник)
- 1968 Anyuta's Way as Chief
- 1979 He Foretells Victory
- 1975 Memory
- 1981 Sergey Ivanovich Retires
- 1977 Yuliya Vrevskaya as Mikhail Pavlov
- 1966 The Three Andreis as Self
- 1972 The Prince and the Pauper as лорд Сент-Джон
- 1979 The Bodyguard as Sultan Nazar
- 1977 The Legend of Thyl as Fishmonger
- 1976 There, Beyond the Horizon as Bochazhnikov
- 1971 In the azure steppe
- 1981 Khatanbaatar as Bakich
- 1981 People's Khatanbaatar as Bakich
- 1973 Oh, Cinema, Cinema! as Self
- 1976 Between Sky and Earth
- 1973 Notches For Memory
- 1981 Boomerang as McClain - sheriff
- 1981 Scattered Nest as Neznakomiy strannik
- 1993 To Remember ( 1 episode ) as archivefootage
