Netflix releases trailer for “One Hundred Years of Solitude” on García Márquez’s tenth death anniversary

MEXICO CITY (apro).-Just on the 10th anniversary of the death of Gabriel García Márquez, Netflix presented the trailer for the long-awaited series that will adapt the epic novel by One hundred years of loneliness.

“In the timeless city of Macondo, seven generations of the Buendía family navigate love, oblivion and the inescapability of their past and their destiny.”

In the same year it is published See you in Augustthe posthumous book of the Nobel Prize winner in literature, now comes the adaptation of his most recognized work by the Colombian writer.

In this first preview, the voice of Aureliano Babilonia deciphering the mythical diary of Melquiades takes us to Macondo with the image of Colonel Aureliano Buendía. And the announcement of the mythical phrase: “Many years later, in front of the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía had to remember that remote afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.”

The series will consist of 16 episodes in the first season. The actor Claudio Cataño will be in charge of playing Colonel Aureliano Buendía; The character of Úrsula Iguaran will be played by Susana Morales and the prophet Melquiades will be presented by Moreno Borja.

Rodrigo García, Gonzalo García Barcha, and the Colombian writer’s children are executive producers. The series was written by José Rivera, Natalia Santa, Camila Brugés, María Camila Arias and Albatrós González. These first 16 episodes were filmed in the departments of Guajira, Magdalena, Cesar, Cundinamarca and Tolima in Colombia.

Under the direction of Laura Mora and Alex García López, One hundred years of loneliness represents one of the most ambitious audiovisual projects in the history of Latin America, carried out by the best artists and technicians from Colombia and other countries, filmed entirely in Spanish and in Colombia and with the support of the family of Gabriel García Márquez .

Published in 1967, One hundred years of loneliness It is one of the emblematic works of Gabriel García Márquez, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. Considered a masterpiece of Latin American and universal literature, it has sold more than 50 million copies and has been translated into more than 40 languages.