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Ava & Gabriel: A Love Story
Ava & Gabriel: A Love Story

AVA & GABRIEL: A LOVE STORY

Ava & Gabriel - Un historia di amor

Directed by Felix de Rooy
Netherlands, France, 1990
Drama, Romance

Synopsis

Set in Curacao in the 1940s, painter Gabriel Goedbloed, who arrives from Holland to paint a mural of the Virgin Mary. 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.

Synopsis

Set in Curacao in the 1940s, painter Gabriel Goedbloed, who arrives from Holland to paint a mural of the Virgin Mary. 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.