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Amish: A Secret Life

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Calorie Rating: 84
Released: 2012-08-02
Running Time: 60 Minutes
Studios: BBC Cymru Wales,


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.

Director / Directors



Cast

Lindsay Duncan
Character: Narrator (voice)
David Lapp
Character: Himself
Miriam Lapp
Character: Herself


Production and Crew

Steve Robinson
Director of Photography

Tim Green
Executive Producer