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.

Фільмографія

• To Remember — archivefootage
• 1986Trial on the Road — Petushkov
• 1982Peasants — artist
• 1982The Train Has Stopped — Malinin, a journalist
• 1981Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin — Colonel
• 1981Boomerang — McClain - sheriff
• 1981Iz zhizni otdykhayushchikh — Tolik Chikin
• 1981Khatanbaatar — Bakich
• 1981People's Khatanbaatar — Bakich
• 1981Scattered Nest — Neznakomiy strannik
• 1981Sergey Ivanovich Retires
• 1981The Hat — Anya's stepfather
• 1981The Mysterious Old Man
• 1981The Secret of the Notebook — Martyn Martynych
• 1981Twenty Six Days in the Life of Dostoevsky — Fyodor Dostoevsky
• 1979He Foretells Victory
• 1979The Bodyguard — Sultan Nazar
• 1979Trasa — Lev Nikolayevich Slivin
• 1979Сталкер — Writer
• 1978The Turning Point — Kostik
• 1977Cash Collector's Bag — Ivan Timofeyevich
• 1977The Ascent — Portnov, Collaborationist Interrogator
• 1977The Legend of Thyl — Fishmonger
• 1977While the Mountains Still Stand... — следователь
• 1977Yuliya Vrevskaya — Mikhail Pavlov
• 1976Between Sky and Earth
• 1976There, Beyond the Horizon — Bochazhnikov
• 1976Trust — Bochazhnikov
• 1975Memory
• 1975The Balloonist
• 1975The Last Day of Winter — Соловцов
• 1975Дзеркало — Forensic Doctor
• 1974At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger Among His Own — Sarychev
• 1974Under a Stone Sky — Хофмайер (немецкий полковник)
• 1973Grandmaster
• 1973Notches For Memory
• 1973The Love of Mankind — Dmitry Kalmykov
• 1972The Prince and the Pauper — лорд Сент-Джон
• 1972Соляріс — Dr. Sartorius
• 1971In the azure steppe
• 1969One Chance in One Thousand — Captain Migunko
• 1968Anyuta's Way — Stepan - head of the food detachment, Chief
• 1967No Path Through Fire — Commissar Yevstryukov
• 1966Андрій Рубльов — Andrei Rublev
• 1964The Kurt Clausewitz Case

Ток-шоу, премії та інші появи (2)

• 1973Oh, Cinema, Cinema! — Self
• 1966The Three Andreis — Self