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

To Remember

Stalker

Mirror

Solaris

Andrei Rublev

The Ascent

Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin

Yuliya Vrevskaya

All Movies (47)

• Trial on the Road1986 · as Petushkov
• The Train Has Stopped1982 · as Malinin, a journalist
• Peasants1982 · as artist
• Scattered Nest1981 · as Neznakomiy strannik
• The Secret of the Notebook1981 · as Martyn Martynych
• Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin1981 · as Colonel
• Boomerang1981 · as McClain - sheriff
• The Mysterious Old Man1981
• Iz zhizni otdykhayushchikh1981 · as Tolik Chikin
• Sergey Ivanovich Retires1981
• The Hat1981 · as Anya's stepfather
• Twenty Six Days in the Life of Dostoevsky1981 · as Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Khatanbaatar1981 · as Bakich
• People's Khatanbaatar1981 · as Bakich
• He Foretells Victory1979
• Stalker1979 · as Writer
• Trasa1979 · as Lev Nikolayevich Slivin
• The Bodyguard1979 · as Sultan Nazar
• The Turning Point1978 · as Kostik
• Cash Collector's Bag1977 · as Ivan Timofeyevich
• Yuliya Vrevskaya1977 · as Mikhail Pavlov
• The Legend of Till1977 · as Fishmonger
• The Ascent1977 · as Portnov, collaborationist interrogator
• While the Mountains Still Stand...1977 · as следователь
• There, Beyond the Horizon1976 · as Bochazhnikov
• Trust1976 · as Bochazhnikov
• Between Sky and Earth1976
• The Balloonist1975
• The Last Day of Winter1975 · as Соловцов
• Mirror1975 · as Forensic Doctor
• Memory1975
• At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger Among His Own1974 · as Sarychev
• Under a Stone Sky1974 · as Хофмайер (немецкий полковник)
• Grandmaster1973
• Notches For Memory1973
• Oh, Cinema, Cinema!1973 · as Self
• The Love of Mankind1973 · as Dmitry Kalmykov
• Solaris1972 · as Dr. Sartorius
• The Prince and the Pauper1972 · as лорд Сент-Джон
• In the azure steppe1971
• One Chance in One Thousand1969 · as Captain Migunko
• Anyuta's Way1968 · as Stepan - head of the food detachment
• Anyuta's Way1968 · as Chief
• No Path Through Fire1967 · as Commissar Yevstryukov
• The Three Andreis1966 · as Self
• Andrei Rublev1966 · as Andrei Rublev
• The Kurt Clausewitz Case1964

All TV Shows (1)

• To Remember1993 · as archivefootage