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

Directed by Joseph Sargent

Overview

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

Length 120 minutes

Actors

Andy Garcia | Mía Maestro | Gloria Estefan | David Paymer | Charles S. Dutton | Tomás Milián | Freddy Rodríguez | José Zúñiga | Fernanda Andrade | Steven Bauer | Fionnula Flanagan | Michael O'Hagan | Miriam Colón | Ruben Rabasa | Arturo Sandoval | Ron Madoff