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Ava & Gabriel: A Love Story (1990)

5.6 | Nov 09, 1990 (NL) | Drama | 01:40

A classic story about forbidden love.

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

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Writer, Producer
Director of Photography
First Assistant "A" Camera
Sound Assistant
Editor
Costume Design
Art Direction
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Nashaira Desbarida
Ava Recordina
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Cliff San-A-Jong
Gabriël Goedbloed
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Theu Boermans
Father Fidelius
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Carol Brown Winkel
Carlos Zarius
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Dolf de Vries
Bishop Hildebrand
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Geert de Jong
Louise van Hansschot
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Edmond Classen
Gov. Van Hansschot
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Frederik de Groot
Pieter van Knippenveld
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Janine Veeren
Elise van Knippenveld