Anatoliy Solonitsyn
ActingAlso Known As
Анатолий Солоницын, Anatoly Solonitsyn, Anatoli Solonizyn, Otto Solonitsyn, Отто Солоницын
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.
Movies
(47 total)
Stalker
as Writer
Solaris
as Dr. Sartorius
Mirror
as Forensic Doctor
Andrei Rublev
as Andrei Rublev
The Ascent
as Portnov, collaborationist interrogator
Trial on the Road
as Igor Leonidovich Petushkov
Peasants
as Pavlik's father
No Path Through Fire
as Commissar Yevstryukov
The Train Has Stopped
as Malinin, a journalist
Iz zhizni otdykhayushchikh
as Tolik Chikin
Twenty Six Days in the Life of Dostoevsky
as Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Turning Point
as Kostik
The Bodyguard
as Sultan Nazar
Under a Stone Sky
as Хофмайер (немецкий полковник)
The Legend of Till
as Fishmonger
One Chance in One Thousand
as Captain Migunko
Trust
as Bochazhnikov
The Prince and the Pauper
as лорд Сент-Джон
TV Shows
(1 total)
To Remember
as archivefootage