Amish: A Secret Life

Amish: A Secret Life (2012)

TMDb

6.4

02/08/2012 • 1h 0m
original-title

Amish: A Secret Life

status

Released

production-companies

BBC Cymru Wales

original-language

English

budget

-

revenue

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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
production-countries

United Kingdom

spoken-languages

English

French

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