Vehicle door lock for locking and closing doors of motor vehicles, in particular doors of agricultural machines or construction vehicles, such as tractors, having a) a rotary latch arrangement with - a lock case having a recess for a locking bolt, - a pivoted rotary latch arranged in the lock case for encompassing and retaining the locking bolt in a pre-locked position or a final-locked position, - a pivoted locking pawl arranged in the lock case for locking the rotary latch in its pre-locked position or final-locked position, and b) a release mechanism for unlocking the rotary latch having - a release device with a traverse tube, a cable pull mechanism including a pull element led through the traverse tube, in particular a pull cable or a pull rod, and means for actuating the cable pull mechanism, - a pivoted actuation lever engaging in the lock case and having two opposite actuation lever lateral surfaces, the actuation lever being rotatably connected with the first release device in an actuation lever actuating direction to be drivable about an actuation lever rotary axis, wherein the locking pawl is actuated by rotating the actuation lever in the actuation lever actuating direction in such a way that the locking mechanism of the rotary latch can be released, characterised in that c) the actuation lever includes two drive elements which respectively extend out from one of the two actuation lever lateral surfaces, each drive element having a driving surface, d) the release device has a, in particular U-shaped, drive bracket with two pivoted drive levers and a coupling rod, which is connected with the pull element, wherein the drive levers are on one end connected with each other by means of the coupling rod and on the other end slidably abut against one of the two driving surfaces respectively, and e) the actuation lever is rotatably connected with the pull element via the drive bracket to be drivable in the actuation lever actuating direction. a) a rotary latch arrangement with - a lock case having a recess for a locking bolt, - a pivoted rotary latch arranged in the lock case for encompassing and retaining the locking bolt in a pre-locked position or a final-locked position, - a pivoted locking pawl arranged in the lock case for locking the rotary latch in its pre-locked position or final-locked position, and - a lock case having a recess for a locking bolt, - a pivoted rotary latch arranged in the lock case for encompassing and retaining the locking bolt in a pre-locked position or a final-locked position, - a pivoted locking pawl arranged in the lock case for locking the rotary latch in its pre-locked position or final-locked position, and b) a release mechanism for unlocking the rotary latch having - a release device with a traverse tube, a cable pull mechanism including a pull element led through the traverse tube, in particular a pull cable or a pull rod, and means for actuating the cable pull mechanism, - a pivoted actuation lever engaging in the lock case and having two opposite actuation lever lateral surfaces, the actuation lever being rotatably connected with the first release device in an actuation lever actuating direction to be drivable about an actuation lever rotary axis, wherein the locking pawl is actuated by rotating the actuation lever in the actuation lever actuating direction in such a way that the locking mechanism of the rotary latch can be released, - a release device with a traverse tube, a cable pull mechanism including a pull element led through the traverse tube, in particular a pull cable or a pull rod, and means for actuating the cable pull mechanism, - a pivoted actuation lever engaging in the lock case and having two opposite actuation lever lateral surfaces, the actuation lever being rotatably connected with the first release device in an actuation lever actuating direction to be drivable about an actuation lever rotary axis, wherein the locking pawl is actuated by rotating the actuation lever in the actuation lever actuating direction in such a way that the locking mechanism of the rotary latch can be released, c) the actuation lever includes two drive elements which respectively extend out from one of the two actuation lever lateral surfaces, each drive element having a driving surface, d) the release device has a, in particular U-shaped, drive bracket with two pivoted drive levers and a coupling rod, which is connected with the pull element, wherein the drive levers are on one end connected with each other by means of the coupling rod and on the other end slidably abut against one of the two driving surfaces respectively, and e) the actuation lever is rotatably connected with the pull element via the drive bracket to be drivable in the actuation lever actuating direction.