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