Ava & Gabriel: A Love Story

Ava & Gabriel: A Love Story

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Status

Released

Release Date

Nov 9, 1990

Runtime

1h 40m

Genres

Drama

User Score

56%

Original Title

Ava & Gabriel - Un historia di amor

Production Companies

Cosmic Illusion Productions

Director

Felix de Rooy

Description

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