Mat, also released as 1905) is a 1955 Soviet drama film directed by Mark Donskoy and based on the 1906 eponymous novel by Maxim Gorky.

[1] In 1905, in Nizhny Novgorod, Vlassov and his son Pavel are workers in a large factory, where they, like many others, are exploited.

Pavel becomes aware of the widespread misery and begins to organize workers, encouraging them to rise up against their oppressors.

Initially submissive and hesitant, Pavel's mother gradually adopts her son's revolutionary ideals.

Despite Pavel's repeated arrests, imprisonments, and eventual sentencing to forced labor and exile in Siberia, his mother continues his work.