Merhan Karimi Nasseri, the real man who inspired Steven Spielberg’s film The Terminal, has died in the airport he lived in for 18 years.
The Iranian man is believed to have been born in 1945 but became stuck in legal limbo in Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris, France in 1988 after apparently lacking residency papers.
According to local reports, an airport official claimed he had been living back in the airport again in recent weeks until his death just before midday on Saturday. His story inspired Spielberg’s 2004 film The Terminal, in which Tom Hanks played Viktor Navorski, an Eastern European man who gets stuck in a New York airport when he is denied entry but is also unable to return to his native country because of a military coup.Nasseri called himself ‘Sir Alfred’ after his case became known around the world, and claimed a small section of the airport as his home.
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