Netflix has unveiled the first-look teaser of One Hundred Years of Solitude, their adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez’s magic realist masterpiece.
Published in 1967, One Hundred Years of Solitude narrates the multi-generational saga of the Buendía family, founders of the fictional town of Macondo.
The town, an idyllic river settlement in northern Columbia, is said to have been inspired by Márquez’s birthplace, Aracataca.
In the teaser, a character reads from the mythical diary of Melquiades as we are transported to Macondo to witness Colonel Aureliano Buendía (Claudio Cataño) standing before a firing squad while he remembers that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. “What follows are breathtaking scenes of José Arcadio Buendía and Úrsula Iguarán’s journey in search of happiness, fleeing the curse placed upon their lineage,” read a statement from Netflix.
The synopsis of One Hundred Years of Solitude reads, “Married against their parents’ wishes, cousins José Arcadio Buendía and Úrsula Iguarán leave their village behind and embark on a long journey in search of a new home. Accompanied by friends and adventurers, their journey culminates with the founding of a utopian town on the banks of a river of prehistoric stones that they baptize Macondo.
Several generations of the Buendía lineage will mark the future of this mythical town, tormented by madness, impossible loves, a bloody and absurd war, and the fear of a terrible curse that condemns them, without hope, to one hundred years of solitude.”
The 16-episode saga is directed by Alex García López and Laura Mora. Entirely in Spanish, the series was shot in Columbia with Latin American artists.
Marquez’s sons, Rodrigo Garcia and Gonzalo Garcia Barcha, served as executive producers on the show. The Nobel laureate and journalist passed away in 2014, having vastly influenced 20th and 21st-century literature.
