
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.
Acting (47 movies)

Andrei Rublev
1966

Solaris
1972

Stalker
1979

Trust
1976

The Kurt Clausewitz Case
1964

Grandmaster
1973

The Balloonist
1975

Trasa
1979

The Mysterious Old Man
1981

At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger Among His Own
1974

Trial on the Road
1986

No Path Through Fire
1967

One Chance in One Thousand
1969

Mirror
1975

The Train Has Stopped
1982

The Ascent
1977

Iz zhizni otdykhayushchikh
1981

Peasants
1981

Анютина дорога
1968

The Hat
1981

The Secret of the Notebook
1981

The Turning Point
1978

The Last Day of Winter
1975

The Love of Mankind
1973

Twenty Six Days in the Life of Dostoevsky
1981

Cash Collector's Bag
1977

While the Mountains Still Stand...
1977

Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin
1981

Under a Stone Sky
1974

Анютина дорога
1968

He Foretells Victory
1979

Memory
1975

Sergey Ivanovich Retires
1981

Yuliya Vrevskaya
1977

The Three Andreis
1966

The Prince and the Pauper
1972

The Bodyguard
1979

The Legend of Till
1977

There, Beyond the Horizon
1976

In the azure steppe
1971

Khatanbaatar
1981

People's Khatanbaatar
1981

Oh, Cinema, Cinema!
1973

Between Sky and Earth
1976

Notches For Memory
1973

Boomerang
1981

Scattered Nest
1981
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