Marquez’s ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ Made into a Netflix Series – Watch the Trailer

Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez’s masterpiece “One Hundred Years of Solitude” has become a series on Netflix and will be shown this year on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the author’s death.

The platform released the first scene of the series where Colonel Aureliano Buendia looks impassively at the firing squad, while “remembering that distant afternoon when his father took him to see the ice.”

The series has the approval of the Marques family and was filmed
entirely in Spanish, in Colombia, with the support of Gabriel García Márquez’s family, Netflix said.

The book was published on May 30, 1967 and tells, in 20 chapters, the story of the village of Macondo (inspired by the author’s birthplace in northern Colombia) and the seven generations of the Buendia family, mixing fantasy and realism.

The author himself – in the speech he gave at the awarding of the Nobel Prize – spoke about the loneliness of Latin America and asked the developed countries to give a second chance to these peoples, especially nowadays they are fighting for their politics autonomy.