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Mehran Karimi Nasseri, Iranian Man Who Inspired 2004 Movie ‘The Terminal’, Dies in Paris Airport

Mehran Karimi Nasseri, the Iranian man who lived in Paris’ Charles de Gaulle air terminal for quite a long time and roused the 2004 Steven Spielberg film The Terminal, died in the air terminal on Saturday. Nasseri, who was born in 1945 and lived in the air terminal for a considerable length of time, died of a cardiovascular failure in Terminal 2F of the air terminal, Paris air terminal specialists told NBC News. He lived in the air terminal from 1988 until 2006 after he lost his papers and was caught in an in-between state.

An authority told CNN that Nasseri “got back to reside as a vagrant in the public region of the air terminal since mid-September, after a stay in a nursing home.”

Nasseri’s endeavor at an excursion to Britain through Belgium and France, and possible choice to wait in the air terminal in 1998 due to legitimate need, roused the 2004 film featuring Tom Hanks. The Terminal wound up procuring $219 million overall and won John Williams a BMI Grant in 2005 for its score.

“The Spielberg film recommends that he was trapped in a travel zone at Paris-Charles de Gaulle.

As a general rule, he spent a few stays there, yet consistently in the public region of the air terminal, he was in every case allowed to move around,” a representative of Nasseri told CNN.


Nasseri in the end turned down French specialists’ proposal to remain in France since he needed to get to Britain all things being equal, CNN detailed.

While a DreamWorks studio rep told Individuals in 2004 that the last film was “not the slightest bit his story,” Nasseri was as yet paid a detailed $275,000 for the film’s privileges.

In his initial days, he would rest on a red plastic seat, have his garments cleaned at a concourse cleaners, and wash in the men’s bathroom of the air terminal.

While then-attorney Christian Bourguet said in 2004 that he had the option to get shelter for his client, Nasseri would not leave and had “remained for such a long time that he can’t arrive at the choice to leave.” “There aren’t any performance centers here,” Nasseri let Individuals know when inquired as to whether he’d seen the film, adding that the most irritating part about living in an air terminal was “the commotion of the wheels on bags scratching across the tile floor.”

Nasseri had two air terminal streetcars loaded up with things at that point, some of which were given by representatives of the air terminal.

A portion of his gathered things were acquired from voyagers in holding up regions.

“It’s promptly welcoming,” Hanks said of the film in 2004, after the film’s creation constructed a fake air terminal without any preparation for the set.

“This is really the direct opposite of what most movie making is. It is brilliant, it is vaporous, it is cool.”

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