The Lark (Russian: Жаворонок, romanized: Zhavoronok) is a 1965 Soviet World War II film directed by Nikita Kurikhin and Leonid Menaker.

[2] 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 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.

Set deep within Nazi Germany on June 22, 1942, the story follows the harrowing use of captured Soviet tanks by the Germans as live targets for testing their anti-tank weapons.

During their journey, they strike fear into a German town, disrupt its idyllic view of victory, raid supplies, and destroy a monument to a Teutonic knight.