Cast & creator
Anatoliy Solonitsyn
Best known for To Remember, Stalker, Mirror
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.
Also known as: Anatoly Solonitsyn, Anatoli Solonizyn, Otto Solonitsyn, Отто Солоницын, Anatoli Alexejewitsch Solonizyn
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television credits
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1964–1993 · acting roles
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Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (48)
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To Remember
archivefootage
1993
Stalker
Writer
1979
Mirror
Forensic Doctor
1975
Solaris
Dr. Sartorius
1972
Andrei Rublev
Andrei Rublev
1966
The Ascent
Portnov, Collaborationist Interrogator
1977
The Love of Mankind
Dmitry Kalmykov
1973
Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin
Colonel
1981
At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger Among His Own
Sarychev
1974
Iz zhizni otdykhayushchikh
Tolik Chikin
1981
Trial on the Road
Petushkov
1986
The Train Has Stopped
Malinin, a journalist
1982
Between Sky and Earth
1976
The Bodyguard
Sultan Nazar
1979
No Path Through Fire
Commissar Yevstryukov
1967
Yuliya Vrevskaya
Mikhail Pavlov
1977
The Hat
Anya's stepfather
1981
Twenty Six Days in the Life of Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky
1981
The Legend of Thyl
Fishmonger
1977
The Prince and the Pauper
лорд Сент-Джон
1972
The Balloonist
1975
Peasants
artist
1982
Trust
Bochazhnikov
1976
Under a Stone Sky
Хофмайер (немецкий полковник)
1974
Memory
1975
The Three Andreis
Self
1966
The Mysterious Old Man
1981
The Turning Point
Kostik
1978
Trasa
Lev Nikolayevich Slivin
1979
Boomerang
McClain - sheriff
1981
One Chance in One Thousand
Captain Migunko
1969
There, Beyond the Horizon
Bochazhnikov
1976
The Last Day of Winter
Соловцов
1975
Grandmaster
1973
Oh, Cinema, Cinema!
Self
1973
While the Mountains Still Stand...
следователь
1977
In the azure steppe
1971
Scattered Nest
Neznakomiy strannik
1981
People's Khatanbaatar
Bakich
1981
The Secret of the Notebook
Martyn Martynych
1981
Cash Collector's Bag
Ivan Timofeyevich
1977
Khatanbaatar
Bakich
1981
The Kurt Clausewitz Case
1964
He Foretells Victory
1979
Anyuta's Way
Stepan - head of the food detachment
1968Anyuta's Way
Chief
1968
Notches For Memory
1973