The Lark (1964)
December 22, 1964Release Date
The Lark (1964)
December 22, 1964Release Date

Plot.
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Cast & Crew.

Vyacheslav Gurenkov
Ivan

Gennadiy Yukhtin
Pyotr

Valeriy Pogoreltsev
Alyosha

Valentins Skulme
Jean Peugeot

Bruno O'Ya
Obersturmbannfuhrer

Ervin Abel
Sturmbannfuhrer Karl

Žanis Katlaps
German Colonel

Heino Mandri
Standartenfuhrer

Gunars Placens
German Soldier

Olev Tinn
Military Engineer

Janis Jurovs
German Soldier

Zhanna Shabalina
POW in the Field

Zhanna Shabalina
POW in the Field

M. Tule
Estate Owner

Yuliya Dioshi
Hitlerjugend Member

Lyudmila Glazova
POW in the Field

Lyubov Malinovskaya
POW in the Field

N. Fadeyeva
POW in the Field

Aleksandr Afanasev
German Officer

Tõnu Aav
German Pilot

Mikhail Vasilyev
Estate Caretaker

Helmut Vaag
Bar Owner

Gunnar Kilgas
German Officer

Janis Filipsons
One-Armed Soldier

Rudolf Nuude
German Policeman

Yevgeni Grigoryev
Father of the One-Armed Soldier (uncredited)

Vladimir Petrov
German Officer

Nikita Kurikhin
Director

Leonid Menaker
Director

Sergey Orlov
Writer

Mikhail Dudin
Writer

Diana Mane
Costume Design

Nikolay Zhilin
Director of Photography

Boris Bykov
Production Design

Raisa Izakson
Editor

Viktor Karasyov
Director of Photography

Yakov Vaisburd
Music

Konstantin Lashkov
Sound Director

Lyudmila Eliseeva
Makeup & Hair

G. Vdovichenko
Makeup & Hair

Mikhail Kurayev
Script Editor

Yuri Dzhorogov
Producer

Nikolay Rabinovich
Conductor

Leo Korkhin
Conductor

Maya Kristalinskaya
Songs

A. Skorupskaya
Second Assistant Director

V. Perov
Second Assistant Director

K. Kirpicheva
Second Assistant Director

V. Vasilkovsky
Assistant Camera

Vadim Lunin
Assistant Camera

A. Timofeyev
Assistant Production Design

Yuriy Borovkov
VFX Artist

Edgar Shtyrtskober
VFX Director of Photography

Gennadiy Kirik

Aleksandr Gustavson

V. Opanasyuk
Media.

Details.
Release DateDecember 22, 1964
Original NameЖаворонок
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 31m
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
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The Lark (Russian: Жаворонок, romanized: Zhavoronok) is a 1965 Soviet World War II film directed by Nikita Kurikhin and Leonid Menaker. It was entered into the 1965 Cannes Film Festival.
It features a story of a T-34 battle tank and its crew who escape from German training ground after being used as a living target practice. The tank becomes the titular lark, roaming through the land, announces incoming end of the Nazi rule, like larks announce end of winter season.
The film is characteristic for its symbolism with scenes featuring destruction of a German monument in a heart of a city the tank enters, or symbolic destruction of the Wehrmacht when the tank accidentally crashes inside a cinema building and drives through the screen during a German propaganda movie display. The T-34 tank is a symbol itself, being portrayed like an unstoppable, almost god-like creature that inserts fear into occupants by destroying symbols of Nazi rule and enthusiasm into the Soviet captives witnessing its march. Even after its crew is killed, the tank continues its march, driving towards light of the sun.
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