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Ten Takes on the Making of Netflix’s Epic Series ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’
Building Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s world in ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ took years and thousands of Colombians to recreate it.
The production design was also handled by Eugenio Caballero and Bárbara Enriquez, who led that aspect from the start, says Dynamo CEO, Andrés Calderón, who serves as executive producer alongside Juliana Flores, Carolina Caicedo and Diego Ramírez. The production was filmed in 15 Colombian towns, capturing the country’s striking geographic diversity—from the mist-covered Andean forests and alpine tundra of Chingaza National Park to the Caribbean coastal villages near the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, such as Palomino and San Juan del Cesar. She and her team spent close to a year in pre-production, tapping up to 25 local workshops and design schools to recreate the textiles and shoe wear of the 19th century, using among its many references the “Illustrated Diary of a Traveler” in Colombia by Jose Maria Gutierrez Alba.
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