The Path of Oil

Year: 1967

Runtime: 135 mins

Language: Italian

Director: Bernardo Bertolucci

Documentary

A three‑part documentary filmed by Bernardo Bertolucci for Italy’s oil company ENI, broadcast in 1967. Produced after his acclaimed second feature, Before the Revolution, Bertolucci described it as a work by a director eager to return to narrative cinema. The three sections—“The Origins,” “At Sea,” and “In the Heart of Europe”—trace the history and journey of oil.

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