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.
★8.1
MOVIE1979
Stalker
as Writer
★6.0
MOVIE1973
The Love of Mankind
as Dmitry Kalmykov
★7.8
MOVIE1972
Solaris
as Dr. Sartorius
★7.8
MOVIE1977
The Ascent
as Portnov, collaborationist interrogator
★8.0
MOVIE1975
Mirror
as Forensic Doctor
★7.9
MOVIE1966
Andrei Rublev
as Andrei Rublev
★9.0
MOVIE1981
Boomerang
as McClain - sheriff
MOVIE1976
Between Sky and Earth
★5.5
MOVIE1982
The Train Has Stopped
as Malinin, a journalist
MOVIE1975
Memory
★6.7
MOVIE1981
Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin
as Colonel
MOVIE1981
Khatanbaatar
as Bakich
★7.0
MOVIE1986
Trial on the Road
as Petushkov
★5.8
MOVIE1967
No Path Through Fire
as Commissar Yevstryukov
MOVIE1973
Notches For Memory
★5.0
MOVIE1981
Twenty Six Days in the Life of Dostoevsky
as Fyodor Dostoevsky
★6.5
MOVIE1981
Iz zhizni otdykhayushchikh
as Tolik Chikin
★3.8
MOVIE1976
Trust
as Bochazhnikov
★5.8
MOVIE1977
The Legend of Till
as Fishmonger
★4.3
MOVIE1969
One Chance in One Thousand
as Captain Migunko
★10.0
MOVIE1975
The Balloonist
★5.3
MOVIE1979
The Bodyguard
as Sultan Nazar
MOVIE1981
People's Khatanbaatar
as Bakich
★6.3
MOVIE1982
Peasants
as artist
★6.5
MOVIE1974
At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger Among His Own
as Sarychev
★7.1
MOVIE1974
Under a Stone Sky
as Хофмайер (немецкий полковник)
★5.4
MOVIE1973
Grandmaster
★5.8
MOVIE1978
The Turning Point
as Kostik
★7.0
MOVIE1971
In the azure steppe
MOVIE1981
Scattered Nest
as Neznakomiy strannik
★8.0
MOVIE1979
Trasa
as Lev Nikolayevich Slivin
★6.2
MOVIE1981
The Hat
as Anya's stepfather
★10.0
MOVIE1975
The Last Day of Winter
as Соловцов
★7.0
MOVIE1981
The Secret of the Notebook
as Martyn Martynych
★5.5
MOVIE1972
The Prince and the Pauper
as лорд Сент-Джон
★3.5
MOVIE1977
Cash Collector's Bag
as Ivan Timofeyevich
★6.0
MOVIE1966
The Three Andreis
as Self
MOVIE1968
Anyuta's Way
as Stepan - head of the food detachment
MOVIE1968
Anyuta's Way
as Chief
★7.0
MOVIE1981
Sergey Ivanovich Retires
MOVIE1973
Oh, Cinema, Cinema!
as Self
★10.0
MOVIE1976
There, Beyond the Horizon
as Bochazhnikov
★9.0
MOVIE1979
He Foretells Victory
★4.5
MOVIE1977
Yuliya Vrevskaya
as Mikhail Pavlov
★9.0
MOVIE1981
The Mysterious Old Man
★8.0
MOVIE1977
While the Mountains Still Stand...
as следователь
★7.0
MOVIE1964