Fifty million copies sold worldwide. Translated into 40 languages. Fifty-seven years of delighting readers. One Nobel Prize in literature. One Hundred Years of Solitude, the novel written by Gabriel García Márquez, has shaped the magical realism genre and inspired readers since its publication in 1967; now the epic tome receives its first screen adaptation with a 16-episode series. 

One Hundred Years of Solitude is the story of the Buendía family, beginning with the journey  of a husband and wife to found the utopian town of Macondo and continuing across the generations of Buendías that follow, their lives shaped by a hundred-year curse of solitude. 

Directed by Alex García López (The Witcher, The Punisher) and Laura Mora (The Kings of the World, Killing Jesus), the series brings to life the pages that have been pored over for decades. Several years after the author’s death, his sons Gonzalo García Barcha and filmmaker Rodrigo García Barcha agreed to the series adaptation, signing on as executive producers under the conditions that the story be made in Spanish, filmed in Colombia, and allowed as much screen time as it needed to be told. 

The production designers, Oscar nominee Bárbara Enríquez (Roma) and Oscar winner Eugenio Caballero (Pan’s Labyrinth, Roma), set out to build Macondo near Ibagué, Colombia on an unprecedented scale, enriching the memorable setting in which the story of love, power, revenge, politics, and family would unfold. With a cast of local Colombian stars, including Claudio Cataño, Marleyda Soto, and Diego Vásquez as well as a roster of new actors cast during an extensive process, the characters of the beloved novel live and breathe beyond the imagination of readers. The ambitious series is set to be a feast for the eyes and ears. For fans of García Márquez’s classic work and those drawn to brilliant storytelling and exquisite craftsmanship in their television programs, One Hundred Years of Solitude is not to be missed.