Ava & Gabriel: A Love Story (1990) Plot Summary Explained

Release, runtime and language

1990 · 100 mins · Dutch

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Directed by

Felix de Rooy

Starring

Dolf de Vries, Frederik de Groot, Theu Boermans, Helen Kamperveen, Cliff San-A-Jong, Nashaira Desbarida

Set in 1940s Curaçao, the film follows black Surinamese painter Gabriel Goedbloed, who comes from Holland to create a Virgin Mary mural in a local church. As he selects the young Black teacher Ava to pose, the island’s colonial society reacts with intolerance, turning their artistic collaboration into a forbidden love saga.