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TMDB Rating 6.4
IMDB Rating 7.5

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Revenue: $0

Budget: $0

Profit: - $0


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Status: Released

Average Rating: 6

Release Date: Aug 2, 2012

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Run Time: 1h 00m

Original Language: English

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Production Countries: United Kingdom

Production Companies: BBC Wales


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Synopsis

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.


Main Cast

Lindsay Duncan

Lindsay Duncan

Narrator (voice)

Age : 73 | Popularity : 19%

David Lapp

David Lapp

Himself

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Miriam Lapp

Miriam Lapp

Herself

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%


Crew

Department Role Name
Directing Director
Lynn Alleway
Lynn Alleway
Production Producer
Lynn Alleway
Lynn Alleway
Executive Producer
Tim Green
Tim Green
Camera Director of Photography
Steve Robinson
Steve Robinson
Editing Editor
Sean Mackenzie
Sean Mackenzie
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