For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story(2000)

movie - first aired/released 2000-11-18 - 120 min - audience 6.3

Drama, TV Movie

Directed by Joseph Sargent

In the early 1970s, Cuban trumpeter Arturo Sandoval (Andy Garcia) is torn between his own musical dreams and the dreams of his wife, Marianela (Mía Maestro), a fervent supporter of the ideals of the Castro revolution. Also starring Charles S. Dutton as Dizzy Gillespie and José Zúñiga as Paquito D'Rivera, this gripping jazz biopic is at once a detailed portrait of a musician and a stinging critique