For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story (TV)
2000 · Movie · 120 min. · United States
For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story chronicles the life of a man torn between his home and his devotion to his music. In a Golden Globe-nominated performance, Andy Garcia portrays the gregarious, passionate, and obstinate Arturo Sandoval, the Grammy-winning Cuban trumpet player. This HBO film shows how Sandoval's life in revolutionary Cuba is affected--beginning in the early 1970s--by his zeal for his music and by the limits placed on him by his homeland. Representing his torn loyalties are Dizzy Gillespie (the enigmatic jazz musician played by Charles S. Dutton) and Sandoval's wife, Marianela (played by the beautiful Mia Maestro). Gillespie embodies the freedom to follow one's dream, while Marianela represents family loyalty and the ideals of the Castro revolution. Yet, the same regime his wife embraces forces Arturo to play government-imposed music instead of the jazz that he loves. Sandoval travels the world, and while the Cuban government profits from his success, he is exposed to a freedom that eventually draws him to the difficult and life-changing decision he and his family feel compelled to make.
Direction Joseph Sargent
Cast Andy García · Mía Maestro · Gloria Estefan · David Paymer · Charles S. Dutton · Tomas Milian · Freddy Rodriguez · Andy Mendez · Felix David Manrique · José Zúñiga · Fernanda Andrade · William Marquez · Steven Bauer · Fionnula Flanagan · Michael O'Hagan
Soundtrack Arturo Sandoval
Screenplay Timothy J. Sexton
Cinematography Donald M. Morgan
Original title For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story (TV)
5.6
90 votes (FilmAffinity)
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