Anatoliy Solonitsyn

Known for ActingBorn 1934-08-30Died 1982-06-11Bogorodsk, Gorkovskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR

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.Read more

Movies & web series

There, Beyond the Horizon

The Balloonist

The Last Day of Winter

The Mysterious Old Man

Boomerang

He Foretells Victory

Stalker

Trasa

While the Mountains Still Stand...

Mirror

Andrei Rublev

The Ascent

Solaris

Under a Stone Sky

To Remember

Trial on the Road

The Secret of the Notebook

Sergey Ivanovich Retires

In the azure steppe

The Kurt Clausewitz Case

Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin

Iz zhizni otdykhayushchikh

At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger Among His Own

Peasants

The Hat

The Love of Mankind

The Three Andreis

The Turning Point

The Legend of Till

No Path Through Fire

The Train Has Stopped

The Prince and the Pauper

Grandmaster

The Bodyguard

Twenty Six Days in the Life of Dostoevsky

Yuliya Vrevskaya

One Chance in One Thousand

Trust

Cash Collector's Bag

Khatanbaatar

People's Khatanbaatar

Scattered Nest

Between Sky and Earth

Memory

Oh, Cinema, Cinema!

Notches For Memory

Anyuta's Way