Anatoly (Otto) Alekseevich Solonitsyn - Soviet film and theater actor, Honored Artist of the RSFSR. Winner of the Silver Bear Prize of the Berlin Film Festival (1981, for his role in the film "Twenty-Six Days from the Life of Dostoevsky" - nomination "Best Actor")
Biography
Anatoly Solonitsyn was born on August 30, 1934 in the city of Bogorodsk, Gorky region. The Anatoly family was from Volga Germans. His father was a journalist and served as executive secretary of the Gorkovskaya Pravda newspaper.
The first years of life, the future actor was named Otto, the boy was named in honor of the scientific adviser of the expedition, Otto Yulievich Schmidt. When, with the outbreak of war, the name of Otto began to be perceived by many as hostile, parents changed their name to Anatoly.
After the war, the Solonitsyn family settled in Saratov, his mother’s hometown. After graduating from school, Anatoly entered the construction college. Having received the specialty of a tool-maker there, he got a job as a mechanic-weight-repairman at the Saratov Weight Repair Plant, but he did not work at the plant for long (from 1951-1952). Due to the fact that Anatoly's father was sent to work in Kyrgyzstan, the family moved to the city of Frunze. There Anatoly continued his education and went to the 9th and 10th grade. Here he began to participate in amateur performances, read poetry, performed couplets.
In 1954-1956 he worked at the Frunze agricultural machinery factory, a toolmaker.
From 1956-1957 he worked as the head of the organizational department in the Pervomaisk RKLKSM (Frunze, Kyrgyzstan).
From 1955-1957, Anatoly Solonitsyn traveled to Moscow annually for admission to GITIS, but he was not accepted three times. And after the third unsuccessful attempt to enter in 1957, he went to Sverdlovsk, to the newly opened theater studio at the Sverdlovsk Drama Theater, and was immediately accepted.
Career
After graduating from the studio in 1960, Solonitsyna was accepted into the staff of the Sverdlovsk Drama Theater. Here he replayed many roles, but mostly these were small supporting roles.
Anatoly Solonitsyn from 1960-1972 often changed theaters. From 1960-1966 he was an actor at the Sverlovsk Drama Theater.
In 1966-1967, the actor of the Gorky Drama Theater (BSSR).
In the years 1967-1968 - actor of the Odessa film studio (by agreement).
In the years 1968-1970 - actor of the Novosibirsk Drama Theater "Red Torch".
In 1970-1971 - actor of the Russian Drama Theater in Tallinn.
In the years 1971-1972 - actor of the Gorky Film Studio.
In 1972 - actor of the Lenfilm Film Studio.
In 1972-1976 - actor of the Lensovet Theater.
In the theater, Anatoly Alekseevich played more than a hundred roles.
Anatoly's debut in the movie in the title role took place even in the Sverdlovsk film studio in the first film by Gleb Panfilov "The Case of Kurt Clausewitz" in 1963.
Anatoly Solonitsyn became widely known after the role of Andrei Rublev in the film of the same name "Andrei Rublev" by Andrei Tarkovsky in 1966.
In 1966, he immediately received two offers from filmmakers: Gleb Panfilov approved him for the role of commissar Evstryukov in the film "There is no ford in the fire", and Lev Golub - for the role of commander of the food detachment in Anyutina Road. He starred in Alexei German in "Checking on the Roads", Sergei Gerasimov in "Loving a Man", Nikita Mikhalkov in "His Among Strangers", Larisa Shepitko in "Ascent" and many others. In 1969, director Vladimir Shamshurin invited the actor to the role of Cossack Ignat Kramskov in the film "In the Azure Steppe."
In 1972, Solaris appeared on the screens, where Solonitsyn played the role of Dr. Sartorius. In Tarkovsky’s next picture, Mirror, Solonitsyn played the episodic role of a passer-by, specially invented for him. The undisputed success of the actor was the role of the Writer in the 1979 film "Stalker" based on the story by A. and B. Strugatsky "Picnic on the Sidelines".
In 1980, the actor played Dostoevsky in the film "Twenty-Six Days from the Life of Dostoevsky" and for this role received the prize of the Berlin Film Festival.
In 1981, A. Solonitsyn was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR. In the same year, one of Solonitsyn’s last significant works in the cinema took place - in the film “The Train Stopped” by V. Abdrashitov, he played the journalist Malinin.
For 47 years, which fate has let Anatoly Solonitsyna go, he managed to star in 46 films.
