It was in 1988 that Mehran settled at the airport for the first time. (file)
As Variety reports, Iranian exile Mehran Karimi Nasseri, who spent time at Paris’s Charles de Gaulle airport, inspired filmmaker Steven Spielberg’s film “The Terminal,” at the same airport’s Terminal 2F on Saturday. He died of a stroke.
The outlet shared that Mehran, also known as Sir Alfred, was staying at the airport again in recent weeks. He lived in Terminal 1 of Charles de Gaulle Airport.
Mehran Karimi Nasseri shaves early in the morning in Terminal 1 of Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport
Mehran first settled at the airport in 1988, when the United Kingdom denied her political asylum as a refugee despite having a Scottish mother.
According to Variety, he intentionally chose to stay at the airport after declaring himself stateless and reportedly always carried his belongings with him.
Mehran Karimi Nasseri sleeps early in the morning in Terminal 1 of Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport
As Variety reports, Mehran left the airport for the first time when he was hospitalized in 2006, 18 years after first settling there, spending time reading, writing diary entries and studying economics.
Spielberg decided to make the 2004 film “The Terminal” based on his unorthodox position. It starred Tom Hanks as an Eastern European man who lives at New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport after being denied entry to the United States.
Mehran Karimi Nasseri looking at a poster of the film inspired by his life
In addition, the 1993 French film ‘Tombes du Siel’ starring Jean Rochefort, also inspired by Mehran, was the subject of several documentaries and journalistic profiles.
According to Variety, he is believed to have been born in 1945 in the Iranian city of Masjid Soleiman and his autobiography ‘The Terminal Man’ was published in 2004.
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