The Iranian man who got stuck for 18 years in a Paris airport, inspiring a Steven Spielberg movie starring Tom Hanks died. | via philstarlife
Karimi Nasseri's peculiar story came to the attention of Hollywood director Spielberg, inspiring 2004 filmHanks played a man who becomes trapped at New York's JFK airport when his home country collapses into revolution.
After spending most of the money he received for the film, Karimi Nasseri returned to the airport a few weeks ago, the official said.Born 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.
He had been expelled from every other country he landed in because he was unable to produce the correct paperwork.
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