Amish: A Secret Life (2012)

ALL 08/02/2012 (en) Documentary 60 Min
  • Release
    08/02/2012
  • Production
    BBC Cymru Wales
  • Rotten tomato
    64.44%
  • Original title
    Amish: A Secret Life
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
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Overview

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.

  1. Lynn Alleway

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Lynn Alleway

    Producer



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Casts

  1. Lindsay Duncan

    Narrator (voice)

  2. David Lapp

    Himself

  3. Miriam Lapp

    Herself

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 3 , Crews : 5

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Amish: A Secret Life (2012) 60 Min

ALL 08/02/2012 (en)
Documentary
  • Release 08/02/2012
  • Production
    BBC Cymru Wales
  • Original title Amish: A Secret Life
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

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.

  1. Lynn Alleway

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Sean Mackenzie

    Editor

  4. Lynn Alleway

    Producer