![]() ![]() "He no longer wants to leave the airport," his lawyer Christian Bourguet said at the time. "I have papers, I can stay here, I think I should carefully study all the options before making a decision." "I'm not quite sure what I want to do, stay at Roissy or leave," he said after being handed the right to live in France. In 1999 he was granted refugee status and the right to remain in France. 1 Video 99+ Photos Comedy Drama Romance An Eastern European tourist unexpectedly finds himself stranded in JFK airport, and must take up temporary residence there. He had been expelled from every other country he landed in because he was unable to produce the correct paperwork.Īt Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport an informal support network grew up around him, providing food and medical help along with books and a radio. The film has a classic feel to it and Spielberg. Several thousand euros (dollars) were found on him.īorn in 1945 in Masjed Soleiman, in the Iranian province of Khuzestan, Karimi Nasseri, took up residence in the airport in November 1988 after flying from Iran to London, Berlin and Amsterdam in an effort to locate his mother. The Terminal is a comedy, a drama, and a romance all in one without ever really becoming one for too long. Hanks played a man who becomes trapped at New York's JFK airport when his home country collapses into revolution.Īfter spending most of the money he received for the film, Karimi Nasseri returned to the airport a few weeks ago, the official said. Karimi Nasseri's peculiar story came to the attention of Hollywood director Spielberg, inspiring 2004 film "The Terminal," which starred Hanks and Catherine Zeta-Jones. He called himself "Sir Alfred", and a small section of airport parquet and plastic bench became his domain. Mehran Karimi Nasseri died of natural causes just before midday on Saturday in terminal 2F at Charles de Gaulle airport outside the French capital, the official told AFP.Ĭaught originally in an immigration trap-unable to enter France and with nowhere to go-he became dependent on his unusual place of abode and increasingly a national and international cause celebre. ![]() At Customs he is forbidden entry to the USA - Krakozhia has been taken over in a coup and the US does not currently recognise the new regime, or nation. An Iranian who got stuck for 18 years in a Paris airport, inspiring a Steven Spielberg movie starring Tom Hanks died on Saturday at the terminal, an airport official said. Victor Navorksi (played by Tom Hanks), a man from the Eastern European nation of Krakozhia, flies into JFK airport. ![]()
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