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.
46 movies · 1 shows
Trial on the Road
1986·7.0
The Train Has Stopped
1982·5.5
Peasants
1982·6.3
Scattered Nest
1981·0.0
The Secret of the Notebook
1981·7.0
Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin
1981·6.7
Boomerang
1981·9.0
The Mysterious Old Man
1981·9.0
Iz zhizni otdykhayushchikh
1981·6.5
Sergey Ivanovich Retires
1981·7.0
The Hat
1981·6.2
Twenty Six Days in the Life of Dostoevsky
1981·5.0
Khatanbaatar
1981·0.0
People's Khatanbaatar
1981·0.0
He Foretells Victory
1979·9.0
Stalker
1979·8.1
Trasa
1979·7.0
The Bodyguard
1979·5.3
The Turning Point
1978·5.8
Cash Collector's Bag
1977·3.5
Yuliya Vrevskaya
1977·4.5
The Legend of Till
1977·5.8
The Ascent
1977·7.8
While the Mountains Still Stand...
1977·8.0
There, Beyond the Horizon
1976·10.0
Trust
1976·3.8
Between Sky and Earth
1976·0.0
The Balloonist
1975·10.0
The Last Day of Winter
1975·10.0
Mirror
1975·8.0
Memory
1975·0.0
At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger Among His Own
1974·6.5
Under a Stone Sky
1974·7.1
Grandmaster
1973·5.4
Notches For Memory
1973·0.0
Oh, Cinema, Cinema!
1973·0.0
The Love of Mankind
1973·6.0
Solaris
1972·7.8
The Prince and the Pauper
1972·5.5
In the azure steppe
1971·7.0
One Chance in One Thousand
1969·4.3
Anyuta's Way
1968·0.0
No Path Through Fire
1967·5.8
The Three Andreis
1966·6.0
Andrei Rublev
1966·7.9
The Kurt Clausewitz Case
1964·7.0