Actor Anatoly Solonitsyn: biography, filmography and personal life

Anatoly Solonitsyn – a wonderful and very famous actor of the Soviet cinema. He starred in films that were included in the Golden Fund of cinematography of the USSR. The incredibly talented, always creative minded artist starred in the star, famous and iconic Directors of the time. He worked with Alulim and Naumov, Abdrashitova, Gubenko and zarchi, Mikhalkov, Larisa Shepitko, Gerasimov and Panfilov. Few actors can boast of.

Great grandfather

Born Anatoli Solonitsyn in 1934 in the small town of Belgorod town that in the Gorky region. Rod Colonizing represented by several generations of Russian intelligentsia. Great-grandfather of Zachary Solonicina - called “Vetluzhskiy chronicler”, he left several books. Preserved his self-portrait, painted in oil on canvas. He was not only a chronicler, but Bogomaz, that is, a painter, and quite a “noble”. For the free thought of the need of reorganization of the state, which he shared with his friend, went to Paris, the male Solonitsin was expelled from the monastery. The founder of mending Zotovo every day he went to Church in Tonshaevo for cut his own road in the woods that has been preserved and called in people “Zakharov trail”.

Next dynasty intellectuals

Unusual was his son - the village doctor Fyodor Solonitsyn. Not every provincial physician take in the new York hypnotic society. The doctor, who had a rare gift of healing people through hypnosis, has died at the age of 45, saving the villagers from typhus. All the representatives of a powerful kind, as does Anatoly Solonitsyn, was an ascetic completely surrendering to the beloved, they didn't spare himself at all. The father of a great performer of the role of Andrei Rublev in far 50-e years worked as the editor of the newspaper «Bogorodskaya truth”, then, his talent was noticed and he became the responsible Secretary of the newspaper «Gorky true”, and then the correspondent «Izvestia».

First steps in the acting field

Anatoly Solonitsyn, who at birth was given the name Otto. In those years, children are often called foreign: internationalism was popular. But the future of the famous artist named specifically in honour of Otto Schmidt, head of the polar expedition. And then the German names associated with the Nazis, and the boy asked me to call him Anatoly, though in the passport it will forever be the Otto. The Art initiative Anatoli became interested in Frunze, where his father was transferred. Despite the fact that behind the boy was the College and the profession of tools mechanic, in a new city Anatoly goes in the 9th class and actively engaged in the theatrical circle. And so nice that it turned out that he was invited with performances in various institutions of the city. And the dream of becoming an actor grew stronger.

Sverdlovsk "Alma mater" and beginning of professional activities

When I read about how the greatest artists did not arrive in prestigious Moscow theatre universities with the sentence “incompetent”, then Willy-nilly start to think about the competence of the selection Committee. After all three rejected it Solonitsyn Anatoly in a few years he gave art lessons to students. The third unsuccessful attempt of receipt in GITIS Solonitsyn forced to go to Sverdlovsk. In order not to lose another year, Anatoly successfully passed the exams at the Studio of the Sverdlovsk drama theater, which just opened. After graduation, the actor remains in the Sverdlovsk theatre.

Here, in this city, he receives his first, but the main role in a short film by Gleb Panfilov. The picture “the Case of Kurt Clausewitz” was the film debut of a young Director at the Sverdlovsk film Studio. It so happened that the first Director, who met the actor Anatoly Solonitsyn who was a wonderful Gleb Panfilov.

Towards star roles

But mainly in the creative destiny of the actor was Andrei Tarkovsky. Anatoly Zubkov for interesting roles, without hesitation, changed the city and theatres. Came out in those years, thick magazine “vanguard” in which the monthly printed scripts. Solonitsyn read "Andrei Rublev" and rushed to Moscow. He felt he could and should play this role. His unusual and appropriate in this case for the looks, and the talent is so convinced I need to remove it, and not already approved Stanislava Lublina that the Director went against everything the arts Council. in order to dispel recent doubts about the choice, Andrei Tarkovsky turned to the experts at the ancient art with the question, one of twenty actors, and the pictures he provided, the most, in their opinion, fit the image of Andrei Rublev. The answer was unanimous - Anatoly Solonitsyn. His filmography, with the end of life 46 beautiful works, was crowned this second, then unmatched by any other film role.

Andrei Tarkovsky

The Film was released in 1966 and brought the Globe into world fame. Andrei Tarkovsky as the best foreign film was awarded the Finnish film "Jussi". It has been noted that bad, disastrous role the actor was not – he was a very talented and obsessed with the profession. But on the commemorative plaques on the gravestone depicted Solonitsyn in Andrei Rublev. The work of this role has changed the views of the artist on many things, including religion. For the Director, he became a kind of talisman – Anatoly starred in all his films, except for “Nostalgia”, where the deadly disease Solonicina main role is played by Oleg Yankovsky. Even in “Mirror” the actor was busy in a specially invented role of a Passerby. One should separately mention the work in the films of his idol. He created unforgettable images of Dr. Sartorius in the movie “Solaris” (1972) and Writer in “Stalker" (1979).

Favorite writer

Solonitsyn lived a short life – he was only 47 years old. He was a very decent, loyal, honest man, a good partner, a good girl with a great sense of humor, real, in Chekhov's interpretation of the word, the Russian intellectual. Favorite writer he was Dostoevsky. In order to fulfill the role of the author in a failed film adaptation of “Idiot” the artist was willing to do plastic surgery. When Tarkovsky asked him, whom he will portray then face Fedor Mikhailovich Solonitsyn was told that then, after this role, he will play no one and no reason. And he in 1980 really played the beloved classic film “26 days of Dostoevsky's life" directed by Alexander Zarkhi. The role earned him a "Silver bear" at the Berlinale.

Theatres

Anatoly Solonitsyn, biography which changed dramatically after the role of Andrei Rublev and familiarity with Andrei Tarkovsky, it becomes, in essence, an actor. His last theatre role was hamlet, performed on the stage of Lenkom by Andrei Tarkovsky. This role Solonitsin played in December 1976. He served in the drama theatres of Moscow, Leningrad, Sverdlovsk, Minsk, Novosibirsk and Tallinn. And on stage he created some unforgettable images. In addition to the above-mentioned hamlet, the theatrical event was the role in the play by Leonid Andreyev "He who gets slapped" set Arseniy Sagal'chik. For her A. Solonitsyn on time, moved to Tallinn.

Other Directors

In the movie was the best of his work with Gleb Panfilov in the movie «hell no» Nikita Mikhalkov in the film “among strangers”. He played great from Larisa Shepitko with ‘Ascension” and Alexis Herman to “Check on the road”. they were filled the role in “Antineu the road” gerasimovsky "Love man”. A separate niche is occupied by his work in the film Vladimir Shamshurina “In the azure steppe", filmed in 1969. It is not that he is great and played the role of a Cossack Ignat Kramskoy, and the fact that the shooting of this film he fell ill with pneumonia. Being obsessed with work, Anatoly continued acting not molecules, which led subsequently to the tragic events – lung cancer.

Significant role

Actor Anatoly Solonitsyn, whose biography is in these years was full of favorite work and love, your health didn't pay much attention. The degree of neglect of illness found out by accident. In 1981, he starred in B. Abdrashitova in the film “the train Stopped”. In the story, its hero a journalist Malinin riding the horse. The actor slipped in the saddle, falling badly bruised chest. At the hospital on examination detected lung cancer, and in the First medical Institute, where the actor was rushed, found that metastases had already spread and on the spine, and the process cannot be stopped. The work in this film is the last significant film role. In the same 1981 A. Solonitsyn awarded the title of Honored artist of the RSFSR.

Illness and death

He complicated the disease, the news that the film is “Nostalgia” his idol being filmed in Italy, and the coveted rolegiven to Oleg Yankovsky. Moreover, Andrei Tarkovsky was not found neither the strength nor the time to say goodbye to her dying “mascot”, although he lived in the vicinity. Anatoly ordered to remove a portrait of Tarkovsky from the wall. There is a proverb that the man who gave the friend did not hesitate to betray the Motherland. But, obviously, some creative personalities are above such concepts as loyalty and betrayal. The illness he began to improve but he died instantly, without suffering terrible pain - he choked on his porridge, which he fed a nurse. Actor buried in the cemetery Vagankovsky.

Personal life

In the Summer of 1982 has left the life of a genius Anatoly Solonitsyn. The personal life of the actor was no less eventful than creative. Anatoly was married three times. In a second marriage, the actor's daughter Larissa, which in 2014 works as the Director of the Museum of cinema. Son Alex, born in the third marriage, first did not go in his father's footsteps. But now he works in the film industry. So creative dynasty continues. The fate of Anatoly Alekseevich nicely explained in the work of his younger brother of the writer Aleksey Solonitsyn, which is called “the Story of the elder brother”.