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Amish: A Secret Life (2012)
Directed by Lynn Alleway
Documentary · 1h 00m
Miriam and Dave Lapp are a charming young couple with a brood of adorable children. Dave works in and part owns a construction company. They are also members of the 'Old Order' Amish community in Pennsylvania,whose church forbids all technology - though Dave gets lifts to work in a car and the couple,by allowing themselves to be filmed,risk the wrath of church elders. Having outlined their traditional life-style to camera Miriam persuades several friends to be happily filmed and it becomes clear that the Lapps and other,younger Amish,believe that,having been rebaptized to allow a more open evangelical approach - risking excommunication thereby - they feel the need for a change in the community. The film ends as the family consolidates its dream to own their own farm.
Cast
Lindsay Duncan
Crew
- Director
- Lynn Alleway
- Director of Photography
- Steve Robinson
- Editor
- Sean Mackenzie
- Producer
- Lynn Alleway
Details
- Release date
- 2012-08-02
- Runtime
- 1h 00m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English, French
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- BBC Cymru Wales