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