Acting
Anatoliy Solonitsyn
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.
Filmography
To Remember
Series · 1993
Trial on the Road
Film · 1986
The Train Has Stopped
Film · 1982
Peasants
Film · 1982
The Mysterious Old Man
Film · 1981
Iz zhizni otdykhayushchikh
Film · 1981
The Hat
Film · 1981
The Secret of the Notebook
Film · 1981
26 Days of Dostoyevsky's Life
Film · 1981
Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin
Film · 1981
Sergey Ivanovich Retires
Film · 1981
Khatanbaatar
Film · 1981
People's Khatanbaatar
Film · 1981
Boomerang
Film · 1981
Scattered Nest
Film · 1981
Stalker
Film · 1979
Trasa
Film · 1979
He Foretells Victory
Film · 1979
The Bodyguard
Film · 1979
The Turning Point
Film · 1978
The Ascent
Film · 1977
Cash Collector's Bag
Film · 1977
While the Mountains Still Stand...
Film · 1977
Yuliya Vrevskaya
Film · 1977
The Legend of Thyl
Film · 1977
Trust
Film · 1976
There, Beyond the Horizon
Film · 1976
Between Sky and Earth
Film · 1976
The Balloonist
Film · 1975
Mirror
Film · 1975
The Last Day of Winter
Film · 1975
Memory
Film · 1975
At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger Among His Own
Film · 1974
Under a Stone Sky
Film · 1974
Grandmaster
Film · 1973
The Love of Mankind
Film · 1973
Oh, Cinema, Cinema!
Film · 1973
Notches For Memory
Film · 1973
Solaris
Film · 1972
The Prince and the Pauper
Film · 1972
In the azure steppe
Film · 1971
One Chance in One Thousand
Film · 1969
Anyuta's Way
Film · 1968
Anyuta's Way
Film · 1968
No Path Through Fire
Film · 1967
Andrei Rublev
Film · 1966
The Three Andreis
Film · 1966
The Kurt Clausewitz Case
Film · 1964