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Amish: A Secret Life

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6.4/10 • 9

2012-08-021h 0m

Documentary

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.

Directors
Lynn Alleway
Editors
Sean Mackenzie

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  1. Lindsay Duncan

    Lindsay Duncan

    Narrator (voice)

  2. David Lapp

    David Lapp

    Himself

  3. Miriam Lapp

    Miriam Lapp

    Herself

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Released
Original Language
English
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