'One Hundred Years of Solitude' Concludes This August, With Part Two Premiering on the 5th and the Grand Finale on the 26th

In its first part, One Hundred Years of Solitude introduced a Macondo shaped by the construction of a utopia and the innocence of its early days, which gradually began to crumble when Colonel Aureliano Buendía, trapped in the endless cycle of wars, decided to attack it. Spanning the fifty years yet to be told, the second part dives deeper into the new generations of the Buendía family and the town's transformation, where progress ultimately gives way to decay — fulfilling the curse that seals its fate.

Part Two of One Hundred Years of Solitude premieres on August 5 and will consist of seven episodes:

• Episode 1: The Armistice, directed by Laura Mora.

• Episode 2:  The Queen of Madagascar, directed by Laura Mora.

• Episode 3: Fernanda del Carpio, directed by Carlos Moreno.

• Episode 4: The Innocent Train Had Arrived, directed by Carlos Moreno.

• Episode 5: It was October 11, directed by Laura Mora.

• Episode 6: More than Three Thousand of Them, directed by Laura Mora.

• Episode 7: It Rained For Four Years, Eleven Months and Two Days, directed by Carlos Moreno.

Additionally, the Grand Finale of the One Hundred Years of Solitude adaptation premieres August 26. Directed by Laura Mora, this final installment brings the Colombian Nobel laureate’s masterpiece to its close.

“Each episode of this second part is like a film. We took the series to another level aesthetically, narratively, and through sound and music to build a much more cinematic and emotional ending. After living in that house and in that town for three years, we felt that closing this journey had to feel just as grand, epic and cinematic,” said Mora. 

“During the writing and pre-production of the second part of the series, we came to the conclusion that the right way to tell the novel in all its scope and ambition required a format beyond that of a standard episode, but rather a Grand Finale that would properly represent the conclusion of the Colombian Nobel laureate’s masterpiece. This Grand Finale will take the form of a special episode, practically a feature-length film directed by Laura Mora. The two parts of the series, together with the final chapter, make up the audiovisual adaptation of One Hundred Years of Solitude,” said Francisco Ramos, Netflix’s Vice President of Content for Latin America.

Directed by Laura Mora and Carlos Moreno, One Hundred Years of Solitude stands as one of the most ambitious audiovisual projects in Latin American history. Filmed entirely in Colombia and in Spanish, the series is the result of the work of hundreds of artists and crew members who made it possible to bring Macondo to the screen, with the support of Gabriel García Márquez’s family.

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About One Hundred Years of Solitude: Part Two

Following the signing of the armistice, peace still does not reach Macondo. Fearful of Colonel Aureliano Buendía's threats, the Conservatives plot an assassination attempt that —by a twist of fate— brings Fernanda del Carpio from Bogotá to the town. When she marries Aureliano Segundo, one of the bastard Arcadio’s twin sons, she gives Úrsula Iguarán her first legitimate heirs. 

Meanwhile, José Arcadio Segundo, the other twin, will accomplish the patriarch’s wild dreams of connecting Macondo with the world. The railroad’s arrival opens the doors to the banana company, which unleashes the town’s downfall and ultimately fulfills Úrsula Iguarán’s curse: for the lineage condemned to one hundred years of solitude were not granted a second opportunity on earth.

Fact sheet 

Name of the series: One Hundred Years of Solitude

Parts: 2 and a special episode

Episodes: 8 episodes - (P1) 7 episodes + (P2) Grand Finale.

Directors for Part 2:  Laura Mora (E. 1, 2, 5, 6 and the Grand Finale) and Carlos Moreno (E. 3, 4 and 7)

Executive producers: Juliana Flórez Luna, Andrés Calderón, Carolina Caicedo, Laura Mora, José Rivera, Rodrigo García, Gonzalo García Barcha

Production Company: Dynamo

Writers: José Rivera, Natalia Santa, Camila Brugés and María Camila Arias 

Directors of photography: James Brown and Camilo Monsalve

Production designers: Bárbara Enríquez and Eugenio Caballero

Costume designer: Catherine Rodríguez 

Casting directors: Yolanda Serrano and Eva Leira

Music: Camilo Sanabria and Juancho Valencia

Editors: Miguel Schverdfinger, Luís Carballar, Sebastián Hernández

Makeup and hair: Ana del Río 

VFX supervisor: José Luis Orozco

Filming locations: Departments of Magdalena, Boyacá, Cundinamarca, and Tolima in Colombia