Amish: A Secret Life

Amish: A Secret Life

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  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release Date: 2012-08-02
  • Runtime: 60 minutes
  • : 6.4
  • Production Company: BBC Cymru Wales
  • Production Country: United Kingdom
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6.4/10
6.4
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Description

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.

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