Ava & Gabriel: A Love Story
1990Set 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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Nashaira Desbarida
as Ava Recordina
Cliff San-A-Jong
as Gabriël Goedbloed
Theu Boermans
as Father Fidelius
Carol Brown Winkel
as Carlos Zarius
Dolf de Vries
as Bishop Hildebrand
Geert de Jong
as Louise van Hansschot
Edmond Classen
as Gov. Van Hansschot
Frederik de Groot
as Pieter van Knippenveld
Janine Veeren
as Elise van Knippenveld
Serge Ubrette
as Maurice
Rina Penso
as Shon Arlina Recordina
Ana Muskus
as Farida
Helen Kamperveen
as Delia
Norman de Palm
as Shon Francois
Burny Every
as Shon Carolina
Truus Dijk
as Mother Superior
George Curiel
as Shon Union Hernandez
Willy Westermann
as Mieke Hernandez
Fifi Rademaker
as Shon Bonheer
Kizzy McHugh
as Schoolgirl (uncredited)