The ability to transform on stage or on set is important to an actor. At first glance, and even at subsequent scrutiny, Anatoly Solonitsyn has an ordinary appearance. Standard and expressionless facial features. So what? This question can be asked today. The current generation of critics and viewers does not need to prove that the actor's creative biography has taken place.
Solonitsin's abilities were first appreciated by the director with a controversial reputation Andrei Tarkovsky. His painting "Andrei Rublev" became a happy start for the actor. Up to this point, Anatoly worked in Sverdlovsk, Minsk, Leningrad, Tallinn. The biography of a creative personality is made up not only of roles successfully played and noticed by critics. There were many who passed completely unnoticed. As they say, neither good nor bad. Neither fish nor fowl. It is not so easy for even a spiritually strong person to experience such a state.
Proposals from venerable directors began to arrive every other day, but every day. And Solonitsyn willingly starred in films of different genres. I would especially like to note the film by Nikita Mikhalkov "One of our own among strangers, a stranger among our own." It seems that he is not in the main role here, but he draws attention to his hero with inner tension and charm. It is for these qualities that the actor won the love of the audience. In a short time he was awarded the title of People's Artist of the RSFSR. For the role of Dostoevsky in the film "Twenty-six days in the life of Dostoevsky" Anatoly receives the prize of the Berlin Film Festival.
The actor's personal life was uneven. Now one wife, then another, then a third. Children. And the husband and father are one. On the one hand, the standard biography of a womanizer. But in all respects, he was a modest and even reserved person. Psychologists explain this behavior by hidden complexes that are laid in early childhood.
