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