
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.

as Writer

as Forensic Doctor
1975

as archivefootage
1993

as Writer
1979

as Andrei Rublev
1966

as Dr. Sartorius
1972

as Portnov, collaborationist interrogator
1977

as Dmitry Kalmykov
1973

as Colonel
1981

as McClain - sheriff
1981

as Tolik Chikin
1981

as Fishmonger
1977

as Anya's stepfather
1981
as artist
1982

as Petushkov
1986

as Malinin, a journalist
1982

as artist
1982

as Neznakomiy strannik
1981

as Martyn Martynych
1981

as Colonel
1981

as McClain - sheriff
1981

1981

as Tolik Chikin
1981

1981

as Anya's stepfather
1981

as Fyodor Dostoevsky
1981

as Bakich
1981

as Bakich
1981

1979

as Writer
1979

as Lev Nikolayevich Slivin
1979

as Sultan Nazar
1979

as Kostik
1978

as Ivan Timofeyevich
1977

as Mikhail Pavlov
1977

as Fishmonger
1977

as Portnov, collaborationist interrogator
1977

as следователь
1977