Anatoliy Solonitsyn
Known For
Acting
Born
1934-08-30 in Bogorodsk, Gorkovskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR
Died
1982-06-11
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.
Most Known For
To Remember
as archivefootage
Stalker
as Writer
Mirror
as Forensic Doctor
Andrei Rublev
as Andrei Rublev
Solaris
as Dr. Sartorius
The Ascent
as Portnov, collaborationist interrogator
The Train Has Stopped
as Malinin, a journalist
Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin
as Colonel
At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger Among His Own
as Сарычев
No Path Through Fire
as Commissar Yevstryukov
Trial on the Road
as Igor Leonidovich Petushkov
The Hat
as Anya's stepfather
The Legend of Till
as Fishmonger
The Bodyguard
as Sultan Nazar
The Love of Mankind
as Dmitry Kalmykov
There, Beyond the Horizon
as Bochazhnikov
Memory
Yuliya Vrevskaya
as Mikhail Pavlov
Trust
as Bochazhnikov
Iz zhizni otdykhayushchikh
as Tolik Chikin