Mehran Karimi Nasseri, the man who inspired Steven Spielberg's TheTerminal, has died at the airport.
On November 12, 2022, Iranian refugee Mehran Karimi Nasseri passed away from a heart attack in a terminal at Paris’s Charles de Gaulle Airport, Deadline reports. The man, who was believed to be in his late '70s, was not there on business, nor was he awaiting a flight, though he was enduring a long layover - a 34-year layover, in fact.
COLLIDER VIDEO OF THE DAY So little was truly known about Nasseri, who arrived at Charles de Gaulle in 1988 looking to gain admission to England. After being exiled from his home country of Iran in 1977 for, according to The New York Times, protesting “the regime of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi while a student in England,” Nasseri ultimately found himself in a difficult limbo situation when he, reportedly, lost his temporary refugee papers.
This perplexing situation naturally piqued the curiosity of journalists, documentarians, and Christian Bourget, the human rights lawyer who took on Nasseri's case. In particular, in 2003, director Spielberg's production company DreamWorks reached out with an offer. The rights to Nasseri's story gleaned approximately $250,000, though Bourget admitted, "While he became a bit richer, Alfred is extremely paranoid and confused.
While it appears Nasseri never quite made it to his destination, it's arguable that perhaps his return to a terminal stay at the Charles de Gaulle was his intended journey's end. After all, home is where the heart is, and Nasseri's Terminal 1 camp certainly touched the hearts of many who sought to provide comfort, aid and to tell his story.
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