Anatoly (Otto) Alekseevich Solonitsyn - Soviet theater and film actor, Honored Artist of the RSFSR. Winner of the "Silver Bear" prize at the Berlin Film Festival (1981, for his role in the film "Twenty-Six Days in the Life of Dostoevsky" - nomination "Best Actor")
Biography
Anatoly Solonitsyn was born on August 30, 1934 in the city of Bogorodsk, Gorky Region. Anatoly's family was from the Volga Germans. His father was a journalist and worked as the executive secretary of the newspaper "Gorkovskaya Pravda".
The first years of his life, the future actor bore the name Otto, the boy was named after the scientific leader of the expedition, Otto Yulievich Schmidt. When, with the outbreak of war, the name of Otto was perceived by many as hostile, the 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 a construction college. Having received the specialty of a toolmaker there, he got a job at the Saratov weight-repair plant as a weight-repairman, but worked at the plant for a short time (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 with couplets.
In 1954-1956 he worked at the Frunze Agricultural Machinery Plant as a toolmaker.
From 1956-1957 he worked as the head of the organizational department in the Pervomaisky RKLKSM (Frunze, Kyrgyzstan).
From 1955-1957, Anatoly Solonitsyn traveled to Moscow annually to enter 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, Solonitsyn was admitted to the staff of the Sverdlovsk Drama Theater. Here he played many roles, but mostly they were small supporting roles.
Anatoly Solonitsyn often changed theaters from 1960-1972. From 1960-1966 he was an actor in the Sverlovsk Drama Theater.
In 1966-1967 he was an actor of the Gorky Drama Theater (BSSR).
In 1967-1968 he was an actor at the Odessa Film Studio (under a contract).
In 1968-1970 he was an actor in the Novosibirsk Drama Theater "Red Torch".
In 1970-1971 he was an actor at the Russian Drama Theater in Tallinn.
In 1971-1972 he was an actor at the Gorky Film Studio.
In 1972 he was an actor at the Lenfilm Film Studio.
In 1972-1976 he was an actor of the Lensovet Theater.
In the theater, Anatoly Alekseevich played more than a hundred roles.
The debut of Anatoly in the movie in the lead role took place at 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 received two proposals from film directors at once: Gleb Panfilov approved him for the role of Commissioner Yevstryukov in the film "There is no ford in the fire", and Lev Golub - for the role of the commander of the food detachment in "Anyuta Road". He starred with Alexei German in "Checking on the Roads", Sergei Gerasimov in "Love a Man", Nikita Mikhalkov in "One's Own Among Strangers", Larisa Shepitko in "Ascent" and many others. In 1969, director Vladimir Shamshurin invited the actor to play the role of the Cossack Ignat Kramskov in the film In the Azure Steppe.
In 1972, "Solaris" was released, where Solonitsyn played the role of Dr. Sartorius. In Tarkovsky's next film, The Mirror, Solonitsyn played the episodic role of a passer-by, specially invented for him. The actor's undoubted success was the role of the Writer in the 1979 film "Stalker" based on the story of A. and B. Strugatsky "Roadside Picnic".
In 1980, the actor played Dostoevsky in the film "Twenty-six days in 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 the last significant works of Solonitsyn in cinema took place - in the film by V. Abdrashitov "The train stopped" he played the journalist Malinin.
For the 47 years that fate let Anatoly Solonitsyn go, he managed to star in 46 films.
Personal life
Anatoly Solonitsyn was married three times. Two children were born from the marriages.
The first wife is Lyudmila Solonitsyna (Uspenskaya). She lived and lives in Yekaterinburg, in the past she worked at the Sverdlovsk film studio.
The second wife is Larisa Solonitsyna (Sysoeva). Daughter - Larisa Solonitsyna (born 1968), director of the Museum of Cinema (since 2014); graduated from VGIK, film studies. Grandson Artemy Solonitsyn (b. 1997).
The third wife is Svetlana, the Son is Alexey. Graduated from MSSShM, worked as an investigator. After inviting Margarita Terekhova to star in the film, he left his career as an investigator. Now she works at the Koktebel film company.
During the filming of the film "The Train Stopped" in Mongolia, Solonitsyn fell from his horse and bruised his chest. He was admitted to the hospital, and during the examination, doctors discovered he had lung cancer. The actor died at home on June 11, 1982 after an operation and long follow-up treatment.
Solonitsin Anatoly Alekseevich was buried in Moscow at the Vagankovskoye cemetery, plot number 37. A monument was erected on his grave - the figure of a monk emerging from the church portal - Andrei Rublev.
Chapter 8 of the cycle "To be remembered" by Leonid Filatov is devoted to the life and work of the actor.
