“Always in Red”. The Lark: Great Patriotic War, T.34, Flower Power, Rock and Roll

Abstract

Here, we discuss the 1965 Soviet film The Lark, Zhavoronok, narrating the escape of the III Reich from a soviet T-34 main battle tank during the Second World War. The film reveals the reception in the USSR of flower power, Allen Ginsberg, and Western counterculture movements connected to the desire for change in the country. The film makes literary and critical intermediations, innovations in the use of the camera, montages, and the presentation of the enemy.