
Cast
Anatoliy Solonitsyn
Acting
Cast
Anatoliy Solonitsyn
Known for
Acting
Born
1934-08-30
From
Bogorodsk, Gorkovskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR
Died
1982-06-11
Also known as Anatoly Solonitsyn, Anatoli Solonizyn, Otto 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.

Stalker
as Writer

Mirror
as Forensic Doctor

Andrei Rublev
as Andrei Rublev

Solaris
as Dr. Sartorius

The Ascent
as Portnov, collaborationist interrogator

Iz zhizni otdykhayushchikh
as Tolik Chikin

Trust
as Bochazhnikov

Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin
as Colonel

The Bodyguard
as Sultan Nazar

Under a Stone Sky
as Хофмайер (немецкий полковник)

Boomerang
as McClain - sheriff

One Chance in One Thousand
as Captain Migunko

Between Sky and Earth

The Legend of Till
as Fishmonger

The Train Has Stopped
as Malinin, a journalist

The Turning Point
as Kostik

Trial on the Road
as Petushkov

Yuliya Vrevskaya
as Mikhail Pavlov

Memory

Grandmaster

The Love of Mankind
as Dmitry Kalmykov

No Path Through Fire
as Commissar Yevstryukov

At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger Among His Own
as Sarychev

Khatanbaatar
as Bakich

The Balloonist

In the azure steppe

Sergey Ivanovich Retires

Twenty Six Days in the Life of Dostoevsky
as Fyodor Dostoevsky

While the Mountains Still Stand...
as следователь

Trasa
as Lev Nikolayevich Slivin

Peasants
as artist

The Secret of the Notebook
as Martyn Martynych

The Last Day of Winter
as Соловцов

There, Beyond the Horizon
as Bochazhnikov

The Three Andreis
as Self

The Prince and the Pauper
as лорд Сент-Джон

Cash Collector's Bag
as Ivan Timofeyevich

Oh, Cinema, Cinema!
as Self

The Hat
as Anya's stepfather

He Foretells Victory

Notches For Memory

People's Khatanbaatar
as Bakich

The Kurt Clausewitz Case

The Mysterious Old Man

Anyuta's Way
as Stepan - head of the food detachment

Anyuta's Way
as Chief

Scattered Nest
as Neznakomiy strannik