Motor vehicle lock

A motor vehicle lock with a lock latch and with a pawl system, wherein the lock latch can be adjusted into a closed position for the holding engagement with a locking part and into an open position for releasing the locking part, wherein, in a catching state, the pawl system locks the lock latch located in the closed position via a pawl against an adjustment in its opening direction and releases it in a lifting state, wherein an opening drive is provided, which brings the pawl system into the lifting state by means of a pivotable actuating element, by an electric drive motor of the opening drive pivoting the actuating element in a lifting direction from an initial position to an end position, wherein the actuating element is associated with an actuating element spring, which spring-loads the actuating element located in the initial position counter to the lifting direction, and which spring-loads the actuating element located in the end position in the lifting direction.