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Birthday
August 30, 1934
Day of Death
1982-06-11
(47 years old)
Place of Birth
Bogorodsk, Gorkovskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR
Also Known As
Анатолий Солоницын
Anatoly Solonitsyn
Anatoli Solonizyn
Otto Solonitsyn
Отто Солоницын
Anatoli Alexejewitsch Solonizyn
Anatoli Alekseïevitch Solonitsyne
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.
1986
1982
1981
The Secret of the Notebook
as Martyn Martynych
Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin
as Colonel
Peasants
as Pavlik's father
Boomerang
as McClain - sheriff
Iz zhizni otdykhayushchikh
as Tolik Chikin
The Hat
as Anya's stepfather
Twenty Six Days in the Life of Dostoevsky
as Fyodor Dostoevsky
Khatanbaatar
as Bakich
People's Khatanbaatar
as Bakich
1979
1978
1977
1976
1975
1974
1973
1972
1968
1967
1966
