Enno Patalas (15 October 1929, in Quakenbrück – 7 August 2018, in Munich) was a German film historian, collector, and expert[1] film preservationist.
A former head of the Munich Film Museum (1973–1994),[2][3] his restorations include films such as Metropolis,[1] M – Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder and Die Nibelungen, all directed by Fritz Lang.
Patalas also restored the film The Battleship Potemkin for viewing at the Berlin Film Festival in 2005.
[4] He, along with director Ulrich Gregor, wrote the influential film history book Geschichte des Films (History of Film).
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