Anatoliy Solonitsyn
Acting
Born 1934-08-30
Died 1982-06-11
Bogorodsk, Gorkovskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR
47 credits
Silver Bear 1
Merited Artist of the RSFSR 1
Awards
Won 1 Silver Bear Award
Silver Bear 1 won
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Merited Artist of the RSFSR 1 won
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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.
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Filmography
Acting
36 credits
The Ascent
Solaris
To Remember
Mirror
Andrei Rublev
The Love of Mankind
Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin
At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger Among His Own
Trial on the Road
Boomerang
The Train Has Stopped
Twenty Six Days in the Life of Dostoevsky
Trust
Under a Stone Sky
Iz zhizni otdykhayushchikh
The Prince and the Pauper
No Path Through Fire
The Bodyguard
There, Beyond the Horizon
One Chance in One Thousand
Khatanbaatar
The Turning Point
The Hat
Yuliya Vrevskaya
Trasa
People's Khatanbaatar
Peasants
The Legend of Till
The Three Andreis
The Last Day of Winter
While the Mountains Still Stand...
Oh, Cinema, Cinema!
Cash Collector's Bag
Anyuta's Way
The Secret of the Notebook
Scattered Nest
Other credits
10 credits
Between Sky and Earth
Memory
In the azure steppe
The Balloonist
The Kurt Clausewitz Case
Notches For Memory
The Mysterious Old Man
Sergey Ivanovich Retires
He Foretells Victory
Grandmaster
Writing
1 credit
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