Where Was Netflix’s ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ Filmed?
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“It’s one of the biggest productions in the history of Colombia and Latin America,” a behind-the-scenes featurette for Netflix‘s One Hundred Years of Solitude, the upcoming adaptation of one of Gabriel García Márquez’s most important works teases. And the show, which was filmed entirely in Colombia and is set to premiere with 8-episodes on December 11 promises to bring us exactly to where the author always dreamed we could go: Macondo.
The fictional town was recreated for the show, specifically near Alvarado, Tolima, with the area used to build it covering around 70 fútbol fields. Four different versions of the town were built the show the passage of time. The show also filmed other regions of Colombia, including La Guajira, Magdalena, Cesar, and Cundinamarca.
One Hundred Years of Solitude follows José Arcadio Buendía and Úrsula Iguarán as the two move away from everything they’ve ever known and create a new home for themselves. In Macondo, they’ll see their family grow and face the realities of the world coming to intrude as every generation of the family seems destined to repeat the same mistakes.
“It’s about living up to something that will always be bigger than all of us. We worked hard to build that particularity that has a distinct quality that embodies the Caribbean and encompasses the tropics,” said Laura Mora, one of the directors.
“We accomplished something I believe has never been done in Latin America, something that isn’t just for Colombia or Latin America but for the whole world,” Alex García Lopez, who also directed episodes of the show, added.
One Hundred Years of Solitude was published in 1967 and is considered a masterpiece of Spanish-language literature. It has sold over 50 million copies and has been translated into more than 40 languages. Gabriel García Márque won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982.
You can check out the featurette which explores the behind the scenes of filming below:
