Overview

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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Cast

Theu Boermans

Father Fidelius

Dolf de Vries

Bishop Hildebrand

Geert de Jong

Louise van Hansschot

Edmond Classen

Gov. Van Hansschot

Frederik de Groot

Pieter van Knippenveld