1961-1970Bernardo BertolucciDocumentaryItaly

Bernardo Bertolucci – La via del petrolio AKA The Path of Oil (1967)

Bernardo Bertolucci’s first and only documentary, La via del petrolio consists of three episodes produced by the director in October-November 1965 to recount the complete “oil journey”, from exploration to extraction, shipment and transportation to the refinery in pipelines.

The film begins in the oil fields of the Zagros Mountains, in Iran, where Bertolucci captures the faces of a “magical” country, suspended between the past and the dawning of progress. The camera then boards the Agip Trieste oil tanker, with evocative shots of the Suez Canal. Finally, during the third part, Bertolucci gives free vent to his passion for the cinema. Rebelling against the rigidity of documentaries, he turns to a friend – the Argentine poet Mario Trejo – entrusting him with the role of sole actor, getting him to recount, step by step, the underground journey of the pipeline – the construction of which began in 1961 at the request of Enrico Mattei – that takes the oil from Genoa to the Ingolstadt refinery in the Bayern region.

La via del petrolio (1967) -- Bernardo Bertolucci.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	2h 20mn
Size: 	2.15 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	720x576 ~> 768x576
Aspect ratio:  	4:3
Frame rate: 	24.000 fps
Bit rate: 	2 000 Kbps
BPP: 	0.201
Audio
#1:  	Italian 2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 Kbps

https://nitro.download/view/C1C21D2B6199821/La_via_del_petrolio_(1967)_–_Bernardo_Bertolucci.mkv

Language(s):Italian
Subtitles:English (muxed)

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