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.
47 acting credits
Acting · 47
Mirror
1975
To Remember
1993
Stalker
1979
Andrei Rublev
1966
Solaris
1972
Iz zhizni otdykhayushchikh
1981
The Ascent
1977
Yuliya Vrevskaya
1977
Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin
1981
Trial on the Road
1986
The Legend of Till
1977
The Turning Point
1978
Trust
1976
Sergey Ivanovich Retires
1981
At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger Among His Own
1974
The Three Andreis
1966
Between Sky and Earth
1976
The Love of Mankind
1973
No Path Through Fire
1967
Boomerang
1981
The Bodyguard
1979
The Hat
1981
Oh, Cinema, Cinema!
1973
Twenty Six Days in the Life of Dostoevsky
1981
The Prince and the Pauper
1972
The Balloonist
1975
There, Beyond the Horizon
1976
In the azure steppe
1971
Khatanbaatar
1981
The Secret of the Notebook
1981
One Chance in One Thousand
1969
While the Mountains Still Stand...
1977
Memory
1975
Peasants
1982
Cash Collector's Bag
1977
Notches For Memory
1973
Under a Stone Sky
1974
The Mysterious Old Man
1981
Grandmaster
1973
The Last Day of Winter
1975
Trasa
1979
The Train Has Stopped
1982
He Foretells Victory
1979
Anyuta's Way
1968
The Kurt Clausewitz Case
1964
Scattered Nest
1981
People's Khatanbaatar
1981