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Known For
Acting
Birthday
August 30, 1934
Died
June 11, 1982
Place of Birth
Bogorodsk, Gorkovskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR
Also Known As
- Анатолий Солоницын
- Anatoly Solonitsyn
- Anatoli Solonizyn
- Otto Solonitsyn
- Отто Солоницын
- Anatoli Alexejewitsch Solonizyn
- Anatoli Alekseïevitch Solonitsyne
Anatoliy Solonitsyn
1.2 Popularity
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.
Known For
7.0
archivefootage
To Remember
1993
6.9
Igor Leonidovich Petushkov
Trial on the Road
1986
5.4
Malinin, a journalist
The Train Has Stopped
1982
0.0
Neznakomiy strannik
Scattered Nest
1981
5.0
Martyn Martynych
The Secret of the Notebook
1981
6.5
Colonel
Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin
1981
6.4
Pavlik's father
Peasants
1981
9.0
McClain - sheriff
Boomerang
1981
6.2
Tolik Chikin
Iz zhizni otdykhayushchikh
1981
0.0
The Mysterious Old Man
1981
Credits
To Remember
as archivefootage
1993
7.0
Trial on the Road
as Igor Leonidovich Petushkov
1986
6.9
The Train Has Stopped
as Malinin, a journalist
1982
5.4
Scattered Nest
as Neznakomiy strannik
1981
0.0
The Secret of the Notebook
as Martyn Martynych
1981
5.0
Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin
as Colonel
1981
6.5
Peasants
as Pavlik's father
1981
6.4
Boomerang
as McClain - sheriff
1981
9.0
Iz zhizni otdykhayushchikh
as Tolik Chikin
1981
6.2
The Mysterious Old Man
1981
0.0
Sergey Ivanovich Retires
1981
6.5
The Hat
as Anya's stepfather
1981
5.8
Twenty Six Days in the Life of Dostoevsky
as Fyodor Dostoevsky
1981
4.5
Khatanbaatar
as Bakich
1981
0.0
People's Khatanbaatar
as Bakich
1981
0.0
He Foretells Victory
1979
9.0
Stalker
as Writer
1979
8.1
Trasa
as Lev Nikolayevich Slivin
1979
0.0
The Bodyguard
as Sultan Nazar
1979
4.5
The Turning Point
as Kostik
1978
5.7
Cash Collector's Bag
as Ivan Timofeyevich
1977
3.5
Yuliya Vrevskaya
as Mikhail Pavlov
1977
3.3
The Legend of Till
as Fishmonger
1977
4.7
The Ascent
as Павел Гаврилович Портнов, следователь у фашистов
1977
7.8
While the Mountains Still Stand...
as следователь
1977
6.0
There, Beyond the Horizon
as Bochazhnikov
1976
0.0
Trust
as Bochazhnikov
1976
3.2
Between Sky and Earth
1976
0.0
The Balloonist
1975
0.0
The Last Day of Winter
as Соловцов
1975
0.0
Mirror
as Forensic Doctor
1975
7.9
Memory
1975
0.0
At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger Among His Own
as Сарычев
1974
6.4
Under a Stone Sky
as Хофмайер (немецкий полковник)
1974
7.0
Grandmaster
1973
4.3
Notches For Memory
1973
0.0
Oh, Cinema, Cinema!
as Self
1973
0.0
The Love of Mankind
as Dmitry Kalmykov
1973
4.5
Solaris
as Dr. Sartorius
1972
7.8
The Prince and the Pauper
as лорд Сент-Джон
1972
5.0
In the azure steppe
1971
0.0
One Chance in One Thousand
as Captain Migunko
1969
3.5
Анютина дорога
as Stepan - head of the food detachment
1968
0.0
Анютина дорога
as Chief
1968
0.0
No Path Through Fire
as Commissar Yevstryukov
1967
5.6
The Three Andreis
as Self
1966
6.0
Andrei Rublev
as Andrei Rublev
1966
8.0
The Kurt Clausewitz Case
1964
0.0