One Hundred Years of Solitude Part 1 Trailer - behind the scenes - Plot Synopsis:Married against their parent's wishes, cousins José Arcadio Buendía & Úrsula Iguarán leave their village behind and embark on a long journey in search of a new home. Accompanied by friends and adventurers, their journey culminates with the founding of a utopian town on the banks of a river of prehistoric stones they baptize Macondo. Several generations of the Buendía lineage will mark the future of this mythical town, tormented by madness, impossible loves, a bloody and absurd war, and the fear of a terrible curse that condemns them, without hope, to one hundred years of solitude. First published in 1967, One Hundred Years of Solitude is one of the emblematic works of Gabriel García Márquez, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. Considered a masterpiece of Spanish-American / universal literature and receiving enormous popular acclaim, it has sold over 50 million copies & is translated into more than 40 languages.
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00:00It's one of the biggest productions ever made in Colombia and Latin America.
00:10100 Years of Solitude is telling us about the beginnings of the history of the world.
00:15From this complexity of the world,
00:18to this complexity of the world,
00:21to this complexity of the world,
00:24to this complexity of the world,
00:27to this complexity of the tropics,
00:30to which magical realism has been named.
00:34Magical realism is a lifestyle,
00:36it's a culture in itself.
00:38The beauty of García Márquez
00:41trying to make a kind of genesis of the world from Latin America.
00:45It's a story that is told in a very special way,
00:49very entertaining, very beautiful, very complex.
00:51Polinar Moscote comes to tell me how I have to paint my house.
00:56Let's say that poetic vision of the world
00:59that gives a relevance to life
01:01in the midst of the complexity of what it means to be Latin American,
01:04I think it has deeply influenced my own work.
01:07I have a lot of historical references.
01:10I have a historical context, a Colombian political context, the Caribbean.
01:15More than anything, the camera was fundamental to me.
01:18How to use the movement of the camera
01:20to give a visual interpretation to what the book is to me.
01:243, 2, 1, action!
01:28Up the canyon!
01:29Caribbean!
01:31Run!
01:38We strive to build that particularity
01:40that embraces the Caribbean, that embraces the tropics.
01:43A very talented team, a team that gave everything.
01:48Cut!
01:50That's nice there.
01:52There, writing, you say, I have reached immortality.
01:55Ready?
02:01I never imagined that I was going to work with such a large team.
02:06Ready? And ...
02:08Movement of the people!
02:19Sometimes there were days when we were more than 1,200, 1,300 people.
02:26It was part of a small piece of a gigantic gear.
02:30The commitment, I have not seen it in any other experience I have had in my life.
02:37I think it will be a great school, without a doubt.
02:41It is not only for Colombia or Latin America, but for everyone.