One Hundred Years of Solitude, the Netflix series inspired by Gabriel García Márquez’s masterpiece and recipient of Colombia’s CINA Transferable Tax Credit, will premiere its second installment on August 5.
On December 11, 2024, Netflix premiered the first installment of One Hundred Years of Solitude, a series supported through Colombia’s Law 1556 and directed by Laura Mora and Alex García López. Based on Gabriel García Márquez’s iconic novel, the production established itself as one of the most ambitious audiovisual projects ever undertaken in Latin America, bringing together the richness of a literary classic with contemporary audiovisual storytelling. On August 5, the platform will release the second installment, consisting of seven episodes directed once again by Laura Mora, this time alongside Colombian filmmaker Carlos Moreno.
Filmed across the Colombian departments of Magdalena, Boyacá, Cundinamarca and Tolima, the series will include the episodes The Armistice and The Queen of Madagascar, followed by Fernanda del Carpio and The Innocent Train Had Arrived, as well as It Was an Eleventh of October, There Were More Than Three Thousand, and It Rained for Four Years, Eleven Months and Two Days. The series will conclude on August 26 with its final episode, One Hundred Years of Solitude.
“Each episode of this second installment feels like a feature film. We took the series to another level in terms of aesthetics, storytelling, sound, and music to create a much more cinematic and emotional ending. After living in that house and that town for three years, we felt that closing this journey had to feel just as grand, epic, and cinematic,” said Laura Mora.
This second installment unfolds amid political tensions, the transformation of Macondo, and the inevitable fate of the Buendía family. According to the official synopsis, after the signing of the armistice, peace will not come to Macondo. The Conservatives, fearful of Colonel Aureliano Buendía’s threats, plot an assassination attempt that, through a twist of fate, brings Fernanda del Carpio from Bogotá to the town. After marrying Aureliano Segundo, one of the twin sons of Arcadio’s illegitimate lineage, she gives Úrsula Iguarán her first legitimate descendants. Meanwhile, José Arcadio Segundo, the other twin, fulfills the patriarch’s greatest dream by connecting Macondo with the outside world. The arrival of the train opens the door to the banana company, unleashing the forces that will lead to the town’s downfall and fulfilling Úrsula Iguarán’s curse: “races condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.”
The main cast returns alongside new talent. Marleyda Soto and Claudio Cataño reprise their roles as Úrsula Iguarán and Colonel Aureliano Buendía, while new cast members include Ángela Cano, Emmanuel Restrepo, Estefanía Piñeres, María Adelaida Puerta, Emiliano Pernía, Juanita Molina, Laura Taylor, Obeida Benavides, Julián Román, and Carla Baratta, among others.
Francisco Ramos, Netflix’s Vice President of Content for Latin America, commented: “In just seven years, we went from producing small local projects to developing a series like One Hundred Years of Solitude. Looking back at that journey, the progress of Colombia’s audiovisual industry has been extraordinary. That growth has been made possible by the strengthening of the country’s audiovisual ecosystem: its talent, production companies, technical crews, and an industry that now has the capacity to take on large-scale productions for global audiences.”
The series was produced by Dynamo and once again received Colombia’s CINA Transferable Tax Credit, granted by the Colombian Government and administered by Proimágenes Colombia. The incentive provides a transferable tax credit equivalent to 35% of eligible audiovisual service expenditures incurred in Colombia.
