Anatoliy Solonitsyn

Acting Aug 30, 1934 Jun 11, 1982 (aged 48) Bogorodsk, 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.

48 Acting Credits

Anatoliy Solonitsyn

Acting

Stalker

Solaris

Mirror

Andrei Rublev

The Ascent

At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger Among His Own

Trial on the Road

Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin

Peasants

No Path Through Fire

Iz zhizni otdykhayushchikh

The Train Has Stopped

Twenty Six Days in the Life of Dostoevsky

The Turning Point

The Bodyguard

The Legend of Till

Under a Stone Sky

One Chance in One Thousand

To Remember

Trust

The Love of Mankind

The Prince and the Pauper

Grandmaster

Yuliya Vrevskaya