Anatoliy Solonitsyn
Acting
Born August 30, 1934 · Bogorodsk, Gorkovskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR
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 i…
Known For · 40 titles
Stalker
To Remember
The Ascent
Mirror
Solaris
The Love of Mankind
Andrei Rublev
Between Sky and Earth
Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin
Boomerang
The Train Has Stopped
At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger Among His Own
Trial on the Road
The Hat
The Balloonist
Trust
Peasants
Trasa
One Chance in One Thousand
The Bodyguard
Iz zhizni otdykhayushchikh
Khatanbaatar
Under a Stone Sky
The Prince and the Pauper
In the azure steppe
Memory
While the Mountains Still Stand...
Yuliya Vrevskaya
Twenty Six Days in the Life of Dostoevsky
The Legend of Till
The Turning Point
No Path Through Fire
The Three Andreis
People's Khatanbaatar
The Secret of the Notebook
Sergey Ivanovich Retires
He Foretells Victory
There, Beyond the Horizon
The Mysterious Old Man
Cash Collector's Bag