FrameThrower · Actors · Anatoliy Solonitsyn
Anatoliy Solonitsyn
5 films · 314 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1966–1979
Born 30 August 1934 · Bogorodsk, Gorkovskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR · died 11 June 1982
Anatoly Alekseyevich Solonitsyn 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.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 5 films · 314 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1966–1979
- Silver Bear
- Honored Artist of the RSFSR
How their films are shot
Measured across 314 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work Anatoliy takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 5 films we hold, 68% of their frames are day, 56% natural — the look of the work Anatoliy takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 314 frames from Anatoliy Solonitsyn's 5 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.