
Amish: A Secret Life

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.
Genre: Action, Documentary
Actor: Lindsay Duncan, David Lapp, Miriam Lapp, Michael Alan Collette
Director: Lynn Alleway
Country: United Kingdom
Produced By: BBC Cymru Wales, BBC Wales
Runtime: 60
Release: 2012
Rating: 6.444 out of 10
Language: English, Français, en,
Views: 185
Content Rating:1h
Quality: DVD
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