Penn'a Du
PENN'A DU
The Pennsylvania Dutch and their language
A docu-drama for television about the Pennsylvania Dutch and their language. Original music by Pennsylvania Dutch music groups and by the German-American composer Conrad Beissel (1690). A film about the struggle between two cultures, one stronger, one weaker. Which of them will win?
"The premiere American showings of "Penn'a Du", a Germanmade film depicting what happended to the German language after it came to the United States. ... The film was produced both in German and in English. "Penn'a Du", features historic landmarks of Germantown, including the Pastorius Schoolhouse and the Christopher Sower House. The film also provides rare footage of the inside of an Amisch Schoolhouse, though, ordinarily the Plain people do not allow themselves to be photographed."
James Tobin Stewart in "The Independent" October 19th, 1982
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USA, 60', 16mm, colour
Production: WDR Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Cologne / Brintrup-Filmproduktion, Rome, Phoenix Film, Rome
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Georg Brintrup and the Amish school-teacher
The Amish school-teacher Robert Mays
An Amish farmer
Roberta Kramer recites a poem by Edgar Alan Poe
Georg Brintrup during an interview
Carl Haag and Georg Brintrup
still from the film
Richard Druckenbrod and Georg Brintrup
Isaak Clarence Kulp jr. a preacher of the Brethren
Isaak Clarence Kulp jr.
William T. Parson and Georg Brintrup in the Pennsylvania-German Library
Arrivalin New York
Georg Brintrup and the Amish school-teacher