本片改编自William Boyd的同名小说。由WB本人亲自改编成一个时长达6个小时4集影视剧本，这部全明星阵容的剧集将由Channel 4电视台制作播出。 主人公Logan Mountstuart的一生就像一段变幻莫测的旅程，在这段贯穿了大半个20世纪的人生旅途中，作为作家，情人，艺术品商人，甚至间谍，他的角色不断变换，又机缘巧合地与那些重大的历史事件和知名的历史人物有着千丝万缕的联系。 《赤子之心》的主人公是一个名叫Logan Mountstuart的英国作家。他的漫长生命开始于1906年。他从上高中的时候开始记日记。这些日记反映了他在牛津上大学的生活，以及他早期在文学上的奋斗经历，反映了他变化无常的婚姻生活和恋爱经历。他是一个贪图生活享乐的人，吃吃喝喝，四处旅行，撒谎不打稿子。然而他的生活却和一些历史性的画面联系在了一起：1926年的英国总罢工，1937年的西班牙内战。一些文学艺术界的名人也在蒙斯图尔特的日记中活龙活现的出现了，不过都带有漫画色彩，大画家毕加索表现得好像是一个左翼空谈家，文坛女杰弗吉尼亚·吴尔夫则成了一个在鸡尾酒会上举止恶毒粗鲁的人，蒙斯图尔特甚至和大作家伊夫林·沃短暂调情。在第二次世界大战中，这位日记作者被军方分派做情报工作，竟然牵连进英王爱德华八世和辛普森夫人的爱情纠葛之中。他对这对情人的观察议论别有韵味。战争留给Mountstuart的是精神上的打击。但是战后他很快就从沉重的心境中解脱出来，寻求快乐的本能使他到了纽约城，成了一个艺术品商人，而后又使他成了一个英语教授，到了非洲和其他地方……他游历了几乎所有的地方,他一生中许多次面临成功，每次却都被突如其来的灾难打断......
赤子之心 (季节 1)
Episode 1 (集 1)
播出日期: 2010-11-20
运行时间: 105 min
概述: Logan Mountstuart is a student at Oxford in the 1920s, aspiring to become a great novelist but even more desperate to lose his virginity. Seemingly trapped by a promise to his dying father to join the family corned beef company, a chance encounter with Ernest Hemingway re-ignites his literary passion. But when true love really does hit him, how will Logan cope when faced with the fact that life is random and uncontrollable?
Episode 2 (集 2)
播出日期: 2010-11-28
运行时间: 105 min
概述: Working as a journalist during the Spanish Civil War, Logan confides in Hemingway, knowing he must make decisions about Freya and Lottie. With the outbreak of WWII, Logan is recruited as a British Agent by Ian Fleming. Foreign assignments lead to encounters with the formidable Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Although the world is in turmoil, Logan's domestic life is bliss. Freya and Stella, their daughter, are thriving and it seems at last that Logan understands the meaning of true love.
Episode 3 (集 3)
播出日期: 2010-12-05
运行时间: 105 min
概述: Following some personal tragedy, Logan appears to have moved on and found success and happiness in the art world of New York. But a family death brings him back to London where he meets Peter's third wife Gloria, and attempts to come to terms with his loss.
Episode 4 (集 4)
播出日期: 2010-12-12
运行时间: 105 min
概述: Logan emerges from his coma, but is upset to hear of Ben's death. After being discharged from hospital, he returns to his old flat in London, where he struggles to make ends meet. In a bid to make the most of his life, he becomes involved with an anti-fascist organisation - only to discover his new friends have sinister plans. Drama, starring Jim Broadbent, Matthew Macfadyen and Julian Rhind-Tutt.
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