Ava & Gabriel: A Love Story

Name: Ava & Gabriel: A Love Story
Director: Felix de Rooy
Genre: Drama
Released: 1990-11-09
Duration: 1 h 40 min
Rating: 6.3
Cast: Nashaira Desbarida, Cliff San-A-Jong, Theu Boermans, Carol Brown Winkel, Dolf de Vries

“A classic story about forbidden love.”

6.3

1990

1h 40m

Drama

Director: Felix de Rooy

Overview

Set in Curacao in the 1940s, Ava & Gabriel: A Love Story tells of the painter Gabriel Goedbloed, who arrives from Holland to paint a mural of the Virgin Mary in a local church. Gabriel is black, originally from Surinam. The colonial Antillian society proves less than tolerant towards him, especially after he chooses as his model a young Black teacher, Ava