Released
Ava & Gabriel: A Love Story
November 9 1990 (about 34 years ago)Rating
56
Based on
4 reviews
A classic story about forbidden love.
- Director: Felix de Rooy
- Genre: Drama
- Runtime: 1 h 40 m
- Countries: France, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles
- Company: Cosmic Illusion Productions
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
