One Hundred Years of Solitude, the TV series, will be shown first in Cuba and then on Netflix
Under the umbrella of the 45th International Festival of New Latin American Cinema, to be held between December 5 and 15, the long-awaited series One Hundred Years of Solitude, inspired by the novel of the same name by Gabriel García Márquez, it was announced that the first two chapters will be shown in Havana, and then will be added to the Netflix repertoire.
The announcement was made by its organizers at a press conference where they reported the presence of 110 films, including Los domingos mueren más personas (More People Die on Sundays), an Argentine film co-produced with Italy and France that will compete in the first film category.
The festival, as is tradition, will extend throughout the island with multiple collateral activities and the screening of films on various Cuban television channels. Likewise, a sample of Palestinian cinematography will be shown.
Of particular interest is the screening, in its world premiere, of the Colombian blockbuster One Hundred Years of Solitude. According to Tania Delgado Fernández, director of the festival, this is a film “unprecedented in Latin America for its scale and ambition.”
The mega production of eighteen chapters employed more than 20,000 extras and another 10,000 actors, in addition to building a town like Macondo at its peak, equivalent to seventy soccer fields.
In 1985, Gabriel García Márquez was the promoter and founder of the International School of Film and Television in San Antonio de los Baños, a town near the Cuban capital, and a person very close to Fidel Castro.
