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In 2006 I had a conversation with Marie-Antoinette Pappé, a French resistance fighter and concentration camp survivor. I was fascinated by her sense of humor and her life story. In 2016 (Marie-Antoinette had passed away by that time) I read by chance an article in a German newspaper about a pocket watch that was supposed to return home from Paris to Winsen (a small German community in the north of Hanover). I learned that Madame Pappé had kept this watch as a symbol of her having survived, but wanted to return the watch at the end of her life to its German heirs. Again some years later I found out that the watch still wasn't returned. I started wondering why and decided to make a film about the watch.

Anna Brass (*1981) is a German director and cinematographer for documentary films. Her films often deal with the theme of "injustice". In her work, Brass likes to experiment with forms of documentary storytelling from the screen to the internet. Her works can be seen at international festivals and on television. Brass lived in America and France for long periods of time and often travels abroad for filming. Brass is often invited to give seminars at universities with her films. She also works as a curator and jury member at the Hofer Film Festival and the Biberach Film Festival, among others. Since 2019, Anna Brass has been supporting the documentary film department of the University of Television and Film Munich as an artistic-scientific assistant. Anna Brass has two Master degrees and lives with her family in Munich.

In 2006 I had a conversation with Marie-Antoinette Pappé, a French resistance fighter and concentration camp survivor. I was fascinated by her sense of humor and her life story. In 2016 (Marie-Antoinette had passed away by that time) I read by chance an article in a German newspaper about a pocket watch that was supposed to return home from Paris to Winsen (a small German community in the north of Hanover). I learned that Madame Pappé had kept this watch as a symbol of her having survived, but wanted to return the watch at the end of her life to its German heirs. Again some years later I found out that the watch still wasn't returned. I started wondering why and decided to make a film about the watch.