Iranian man who inspired film The Terminal dies in Paris airport

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Жыл бұрын

The Iranian man who inspired the film 'The Terminal' --starring Tom Hanks, has died at the Paris airport he lived in for almost two decades. Mehran Karimi Nasseri left Iran in 1974 to study in the UK, but when he returned, he says he was imprisoned and exiled without documentation. That set in motion a life then lived in limbo, at one of the world's busiest transit hubs.
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@gabriella3993 Жыл бұрын

I mean the airport seems better than living in a shelter so I can understand why he returned.

@Sina.575 Жыл бұрын

Yes I'm from Iran. I'm glad he actually stayed in the airport 😅 if he only knew what his country is about to become....

@godsamazinggrace5331 10 ай бұрын

you said it Airport better than the shelter

@danielramos6325 8 ай бұрын

Same here

@FPSAlann 6 ай бұрын

Doesn't he have job after getting all kinds of opportunity? Or he just lazy

@iggykad 6 ай бұрын

@@FPSAlann are you stupid?

@OctPSfever Жыл бұрын

The terminal 1 was his home. He returned there and rest in peace. He knew his friends at the airport would take care of him. Everybody has their own definition of home.

@williamramos3350 Жыл бұрын

Being able to endure for so long. This is true inner strength. I honestly cannot even imagine an existence like that.

@thecoolzone7108 Жыл бұрын

Mehran Karimi Naseri, who was 77 years old at the time of his death, somehow became a symbol for the displacement and exile of millions of Iranian refugees around the world.He was a lost soul Rest in Peace Sir Alfred.

@maxd3028 Жыл бұрын

So now we know who is the real hero of the terminal.. R.I.P sir 🌷

@azdrifter3968 Жыл бұрын

I was on a greyhound bus from Phoenix to Flagstaff and was sitting next to a guy who had been living on Greyhound buses for over a year. He inherited money while homeless. First thing he did was travel across the country on the Greyhound bus because he was afraid of driving and never got a license. He said after that, with no house or place to call home, he traveled back across the country on the Greyhound. Then just kept buying tickets to different states and areas he didn't go through on his cross country trips. He had pics of himself at different terminals in a bunch of different states. He was a little off in the head you could tell, but was a good dude. I kept waiting to see if he gets noticed and stories about him start coming out but that was years ago now.

@dustinkurtz9132 2 ай бұрын

best greyhound commercial ever

@sandie157 Жыл бұрын

What a shameful thing for bureaucrats to do . His humanity and vulnerability shames them. Was there not one millionaire Iranian or one French lawmaker in France who could have lifted a finger to help this poor man?

@hayleyquinnx94 Жыл бұрын

many people did but he refused to leave the airport - check out atrocity guides video on it, it talks about the full history of his time in CDG Airport

@Gorgeous493 2 ай бұрын

I fully agree with you. Even the world knowing about this and still no country reaching out to him...?! Shame on all of us.

@JTC2227 Жыл бұрын

R.I.P. Mehran Kamari Nasseri 1945 - 2022

@1ChxnceLxnce 7 ай бұрын

He seems very humble and genuine.

@sevraonic8656 Жыл бұрын

He had made a lot of money than anyone doing day to day work, with just staying in the airport. I think that's the life he chose and quite satisfied with it unlike people who wanted more but never get the satisfaction. Everyone of us has our own fulfillment level and I think he found his.

@rcallumto5627 11 ай бұрын

What's money to anyone when there's no peace of mind and freedom

@somyapaniya4144 9 ай бұрын

@@rcallumto5627true

@asifkhan4822 Жыл бұрын

Very Sad ending for the man who inspired Tom Hanks character in The Terminal.

@JTC2227 Жыл бұрын

Viktor Navorski

@syamadoolun4969 Жыл бұрын

Rest In Peace Sir.❤️

@Brildanne Жыл бұрын

Amen

@LeaVionne Жыл бұрын

Rest In Peace, Sir Alfred.

@friedwartgurfinkel-buchsen6434 Жыл бұрын

Rest in Peace Sir Alfred!!!!

@parvezmalikvlogs1311 Жыл бұрын

He was a priceless person. World especially France didn't regard respect n helped him.

@power2084 4 ай бұрын

What ??? They gave him immigration papers to enter the country, but he refused to sign them. You are dishonest.

@lastdon25 11 ай бұрын

Who else is here because they saw a short about Tom Hanks movie the terminal? and didn’t know this was based on a true story.

@fawadandfamilyvlogs4671 Жыл бұрын

Very sad ending

@joseadrianmascorroaguirre1387 7 ай бұрын

The comb over tells me, he nerver gives up. Even when all is lost.

@blahblah2779 2 ай бұрын

Allah Akbar

@Good_Luck_8619 Жыл бұрын

May he rest in peace !

@SenatorAgrapa Жыл бұрын

He never find his beloved mother cause of the brutality against him by the UK and France RIP 🌹 Nasseri was born in 1945 in Soleiman - a part of Iran, then under British jurisdiction - to an Iranian father and a British mother. He left Iran to study in England in 1974. When he returned, he said, he was imprisoned for protesting against the Shah and expelled without a passport. He applied for political asylum in several countries in Europe. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Belgium gave him refugee credentials, but he said his briefcase containing the refugee certificate was stolen at a Paris train station.

@changwillneverdie9378 Жыл бұрын

he couldnt get a copy?

@adellis24 Жыл бұрын

His mother was Iranian, it was a made-up story because he hated his family. There never was any 'family in the UK', the man was a pathological liar. He was granted his freedom on many occasions but either refused the help or would deny his own name that were on the documents issued to him. They found his "missing" documents in the 90s because he admittedly had mailed them to the UK.

@OctPSfever Жыл бұрын

@@adellis24 Regardless noone wants to live at the airport 24/7. Its a heartbreaking story that the airport terminal 1 and people over there was his family and home. It is a human nature going back to their home and rest in peace. His resting place was the airport. Spillburg should make The terminal part 2.

@adellis24 Жыл бұрын

@@OctPSfever Sure the situation takes on a sort of melancholic tone upon death but my guess is you haven't seen the documentary on his day to day life. He was happy being a minor celebrity in the airport versus a nobody in the wider world. No there shouldn't be a Terminal 2 for a multitude of reasons & that's why people like you who don't understand film & the business behind it aren't the ones making those decisions.

@okman9684 Жыл бұрын

I m concerned about the public security in turkey after seeing economic crisis and terrorist attacks 😥🇹🇷

@asimrashid8963 Жыл бұрын

Rest in peace Sir.

@sitinazariah9097 Жыл бұрын

Welcome home, Sir. So long.

@hayleyquinnx94 Жыл бұрын

people forget that he refused to accept his papers because they weren't in the name of Sir Alfred, he was telling people he was a British native then a Canadian Native, when his family came to visit him he pretended not to know them. He had said he was trying to get to Britain to find his long lost mother but his mother was Iranian and even came to visit him but he pretended not to know her. Even the events of his protests were apparently exaggerated. For whatever reason he wanted a new identity and when he got stuck in CDG Airport and became well known for it, he realised that was his identity. They even found out that he had actually mailed his passport and documents somewhere randomly so that he would have no identity when he arrived. He was clearly trying to leave his old life behind and make a new identity. He even claimed he was knighted, hence the 'Sir'. He was so beholden to the new identity that it was why he refused to sign any papers in his old name.

@godsamazinggrace5331 10 ай бұрын

Spot on!!

@user-tf9zz2hz8c 8 ай бұрын

💯

@user-bz6nt2ez5q 4 ай бұрын

Interesting

@HawrarLyrics 2 ай бұрын

In world a man He can be a she. I don't think he was wrong to have his own identity

@Gorgeous493 2 ай бұрын

For real? If that's the case then, France was kind to let him live at their terminal.

@bahtfa.ttiger7887 Жыл бұрын

What he did for living in the airport?

@suewalker1590 Жыл бұрын

Man I can’t picture living in an airport

@godsamazinggrace5331 10 ай бұрын

There are those homeless who made such decisions to live in the airport!! I overheard such conversations when I was at the airport!!

@The_Original_Chun_2020 3 ай бұрын

I got terminal for 7-11 days.

@smitprmr Жыл бұрын

RIP those six people that died in Istanbul bombings. So sad that TRT failed to take note of this.

@Marymare-katniss Жыл бұрын

Rest In Peace Sir Alfred 😢

@Abman31 Жыл бұрын

🤣🤣

@kamalaalkishiyeva1582 Жыл бұрын

RIP😔😪

@Misserbi Жыл бұрын

"Keep coming back it works if you work it cuz your worth it." ~ AA mantra

@rushennbody Жыл бұрын

His story itself helped make someone millions yet nothing has been spent for his freedom!

@RedakaiCity Жыл бұрын

Past tense he's dead

@again5162 Ай бұрын

He $250 000 for the rights to his story

@shajibmohammad3671 Жыл бұрын

❤️❤️❤️

@kamalaalkishiyeva1582 Жыл бұрын

I heard that, about 45minutes ago there has been terror in Taksim and 4 people have died, RIP for all of our Turkish Turk brothers that have lost their life😔🙏

@knowitallll Жыл бұрын

Religion of peace

@gamerboy-su1uq Жыл бұрын

😂😂🤣

@knowitallll Жыл бұрын

@Ayesha Karim Vlogs🥰 Muslims did it

@kamalaalkishiyeva1582 Жыл бұрын

1) Greece by using PKK or YPG 2) Persian rejime 3) Armenia 4) FETO can do this

@kamalaalkishiyeva1582 Жыл бұрын

@@knowitallll we cant say exactly it has done by muslims or non muslims

@keshavacharyanp Жыл бұрын

Rest in peace...

@user-tf9zz2hz8c 8 ай бұрын

This man is the Guru of all beggars and homeless people.

@Jackson_Plop 11 ай бұрын

It's so weird that he intentionally mailed his documentation to Belgium, which lead to all those years living in terminal 1. When asked about it, he could never provide a reasonable answer as to why he did it. That's the part that I don't get.

@chelseyherrera6973 8 ай бұрын

Probably because he was trying to leave his old life behind and act like it never existed so he got rid of anything that had his old identity

@user-um2je6rq8g Жыл бұрын

Hodo rahmat

@BLUERAVENWANDERER Жыл бұрын

Rip

@mahrufurrahman9759 Жыл бұрын

Honest question, where is his body resting now that he has passed?

@ChaosAlpha Жыл бұрын

Sad.

@TrueSeeker Жыл бұрын

Sad 😭😢

@KallusGarnet Жыл бұрын

Who could live in such a transient place.

@godsamazinggrace5331 10 ай бұрын

LIFE ON EARTH IS TRANSIENT TEMPORARY

@jjyou260 Жыл бұрын

A legend

@Booosting Жыл бұрын

I heard that he finally went back to Krakozhiya and that he also found love in cabin crew ✈️

@bk1147 Жыл бұрын

So very tragic

@periodictech4248 4 ай бұрын

What I don’t understand is how the authorities didn’t remove him from the airport..it was a different era I guess. Nowadays, He would either be deported or be treated as a refugee or something else

@ANonyMouse627 Жыл бұрын

I suppose this is what happens when you ignore people with mental illness and just let them fend for themselves.

@Santoss Жыл бұрын

Rest In peace

@DarkReapersGrim1 Жыл бұрын

So sad. Why are there so many injustices and hardship in this world, God?

@sandie157 Жыл бұрын

It's a good question...The answer is free will ...and humanity and their willingness not to care about others and also to do harm to others.

@rasinshuriken Жыл бұрын

Because this world is a test

@Ahmed-ef3bg Жыл бұрын

In a world without injustice you could never come to know what justice is.

@hypemantv431 Жыл бұрын

They profited off this man and left him homeless it just shows what our worlds lacks “Humanity”😡

@kamalaalkishiyeva1582 Жыл бұрын

Right now, our Abbas Lisani is in prison in Iran, which European state or US say that why is he in prison?

@parvezmalikvlogs1311 Жыл бұрын

Shame on this inhuman n cruel world

@okman9684 Жыл бұрын

RIP to those who died in bomb blast in turkey, very poor handling by the government

@power2084 4 ай бұрын

He returned to the terminal, but his heart wasn't in it anymore 😂😂

@philippebiendon5809 11 ай бұрын

Shawshank redemption... Red said : These walls are funny, first you hate them, and you get used to them. Enough time passes get so your depend on them.

@starmoon4510 Жыл бұрын

🇫🇷🇪🇺The Terminal good movie had no idea an Iranian man was behind the inspiration of the film 🎥 🍿

@shintarkanie567 Жыл бұрын

R.I.P. sir Alfred

@aeroAdvocate Жыл бұрын

What happened to the $250,000 ??

@zztops4504 10 ай бұрын

It's safe to say he didn't get a dime from the movie!

@alparslankorkmaz2964 Жыл бұрын

Nice cover

@armzbarmz Жыл бұрын

How do you get on a airplane without a passport?

@PristinePerceptions Жыл бұрын

By your own country's officials forcing you on the plane without a passport? There is no independence in dictatorial countries. Not for the people, and not for the airport security officials who will just do the dictator's bidding.

@ruth7965 Жыл бұрын

Great question. DUH moment

@arifahmustafa2768 Жыл бұрын

This is traumatic

@aajabbinmagosh5509 Жыл бұрын

The movie didn't show he was Iranian

@Aethelhadas Жыл бұрын

2:05 it says 'Tehran'. Why do you doubt he's iranian?

@reginabillotti Ай бұрын

That's why it says the movie was only "loosely" inspired by his case. In the movie the character was Polish or something.

@stevieohlsson8896 6 ай бұрын

8 days was all I could tolerate 🥶🥶

@Over1MillionAnime 8 ай бұрын

"Isn't it ironic don't you think?"

@emaderaghi 3 ай бұрын

What happened to 250K?

@tombuddy100 Жыл бұрын

Couldn't he have returned to Iran after Shah was deposed?

@kamalaalkishiyeva1582 Жыл бұрын

Rza Shah Pehlevi was evil man. With his government Persians came to power in Iran. In Iran Pahlevis or Persian rejime came to power after 1925s. It was Persians government and had killed more than 30000Azerbaijanis just in one day in Iran. After their power in Iran, even our language changed with Persian language and Persian language became only officially language in Iran. Pahleviis had great lobbis in too many states, from France till US. That man hated to carry "Iranian" passaport because in France his documents, his passaport or udentity card had stolen by Pahlevis government. Pahlevis could do their terror actions in too many states. That man was against Pahlevis or persian rejime

@kamalaalkishiyeva1582 Жыл бұрын

In 1979, we fought with Pahlevis and destroyed them. But that time they ir Persian rejime deceived us again. They automatically changed their name like as "Islamic state" and showed Indian Khomeyeni like as Azerbaijani turk Khomeyeni. By this way they deceived us again. Our nation believed them and kept silent. And after 3 years later, rejime began to show its inside face. They sent to prison too many nationalist Azerbaijanis, killed most of them secretely, from this reason other poor Azerbaijanis began to leave Iran again

@tombuddy100 Жыл бұрын

@@kamalaalkishiyeva1582 I don't think you answered the question.

@kamalaalkishiyeva1582 Жыл бұрын

Pahlevis rejime and Khomeyenis rejime is the same thing. Just it seems differ from outside, imagine that, snake change its appearance

@kamalaalkishiyeva1582 Жыл бұрын

@@tombuddy100 Answe is that, he could never go back or he could never go to Iran

@sapher2020 Жыл бұрын

Why didn't they find an ethnic actor to play this guy instead of a white Tom Hanks?

@westtxmutt Жыл бұрын

Would have been a movie flop with an ethnic actor

@sapher2020 Жыл бұрын

@@westtxmutt It was the 90s, you're right. It would have bombed at the box office.

@sapher2020 Жыл бұрын

@DOOMER312 could have thrown bronzer on him and cut his hair all fkd up at least

@okman9684 Жыл бұрын

TRT is more concerned about a foreigner's security in a foreign airport than it's own people in it's own country's streets, what a shame

@Brildanne Жыл бұрын

Rip :(

@amnakhan763 Жыл бұрын

I wonder were his going to get buried, may Allah give him paradise

@Abman31 Жыл бұрын

Was he muslim???

@amnakhan763 Жыл бұрын

may be

@harnoorsingh2866 Жыл бұрын

TRT is giving news of whole world but not about bomb blast happened in Turkey 🦃

@godsamazinggrace5331 10 ай бұрын

he preferred the airport "home" and eventually died there!!

@CT37BN Жыл бұрын

He got institutionalized that's why he returned.

@geel1590 Жыл бұрын

This is very Shameful to France & EU & I'm glad he rejected their final shameful help

@Abman31 Жыл бұрын

Chil out . Search Google about him,and you will find out he could've settled anywhere ,but he refused. You lot catch cold with a gentle breeze 😏

@sohailbaloch4507 Жыл бұрын

Well first of all RIP , he could have been accepting the France political asylum offer and once becoming French citizen could have been moving to England, but wasting his life in Airport without anything was a wrong decision. but anyway he is no more so may Lord Bless his soul .

@ashjar2703 11 ай бұрын

Things like legal limbo are exactly why people ant say goverments work, and shoes that we are missing sting on comon sense and moral rather then like robots, if this thing can happen longer then a month you have so many people who could have helped in there possition (there job) but didnt who need to be shamed until they change there ways, but problem is we dont shame or force anymore, we try to plea when thats censored or ignored or controled, and then we step back afria to break the rules, the world is broken and should eithr be accepted as such and given up on or FORCED TO CHANGE with every willing persons physical and mental embodiment of willnnot letting those in control exist without fixing whats broken, lest they be replaced if not worse.

@samj1012 Жыл бұрын

The Terminal was a very nice Xmas movie, but after reading the actual story, one can say that changes made against tge true story are cheesy, silly, and ridiculous.

@geezeuspoker Жыл бұрын

A secret admirer

@funki4902 Жыл бұрын

He looks like Walid Jumblatt.

@SalahdiatorDeenAyubi Жыл бұрын

The French didn’t help this man because they don’t understand Humanitè Dignité and Libertè obviously

@desistarktm7270 Жыл бұрын

rip.

@multimedia09 Жыл бұрын

Shame on France who left him 18years and didn't help him, but why not after they killed 2millions Algerian with cold blood.

@Abman31 Жыл бұрын

Yeah ,shame on France for tolerating this nauseous for 18 years . I wonder where he would've spent those 18 years if the terminal was in Algeria??😉

@multimedia09 Жыл бұрын

He wouldn't stay a minute at the airport, because you are Doing a same like a French did so every think looks cool for you, racisme never end I know that, but we never give up.

@tanvirhasan5075 Жыл бұрын

@@Abman31 your comment clearly indicates that , how racist you are. Many dictators are ruling different parts of the world. You are like Kim zaung North Korean president.

@gregoryclawson7007 Жыл бұрын

On exile he lived on the airport for 18years because of the wickedness of some Iranian leaders. For me Iran is hell on earth such an evil country. May Yahweh have mercy on Iran RIP.

@jsprung8548 4 ай бұрын

If this guy is not a political refugee, who is?

@aldourbina6983 10 ай бұрын

Saw the documentary. He was so full of it. Clinically insane. Should have been deported to Iran the 1st week.

@malaikatjatuh2853 5 ай бұрын

What he did to 250k usd .. this man can buy house already

@travelgalaxy8291 Жыл бұрын

Very sad. Iran govt has been brutal

@M335h1 6 ай бұрын

😅30 seconds in and at least two "facts" wrong. Sad

@forsetifamiliaran9759 Жыл бұрын

What Prompted Him To Pre Fer Thé Charles De gauLLE Airport ? It Is Like A Huge HoteL ! Where He Does Not ! DeaL with Any Response ! To Pay For . Only He Is Not Charling himself As A DeBonAire .