Ava & Gabriel: A Love Story

A classic story about forbidden love.

Original title: Ava & Gabriel - Un historia di amor

Duration: 100 min

Release date: 1990-11-09

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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

Drama

Ava & Gabriel - Un historia di amor

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Nashaira Desbarida

Nashaira Desbarida

as Ava Recordina

Cliff San-A-Jong

Cliff San-A-Jong

as Gabriël Goedbloed

as Father Fidelius

Carol Brown Winkel

Carol Brown Winkel

as Carlos Zarius

as Bishop Hildebrand

as Louise van Hansschot

as Gov. Van Hansschot

Frederik de Groot

Frederik de Groot

as Pieter van Knippenveld

as Elise van Knippenveld

as Shon Arlina Recordina

Helen Kamperveen

Helen Kamperveen

as Shon Francois

as Shon Carolina

as Mother Superior

as Shon Union Hernandez

Willy Westermann

Willy Westermann

as Mieke Hernandez

as Shon Bonheer

as Schoolgirl (uncredited)

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Ernest R. Dickerson

Ernest R. Dickerson

Director of Photography

First Assistant "A" Camera

Roberto Van Eijden

Roberto Van Eijden

Sound Assistant

Ellen van der Wiel

Ellen van der Wiel

Production Design

Original Music Composer

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