The man who inspired the film passed away.
The man who lived in Charles de Gaulle Airport for 18 years and was the inspiration for the Steven Spielberg film "The Terminal" died Saturday.
The death of a man at the airport on Saturday was caused by a heart attack. The police and medical team were unable to save him.
The official account of his life states that he was born in Iran's oil rich south as one of six children to a doctor father who worked for the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company.
After his father died of cancer, his mother told him that he was the result of an affair between his father and a Scottish nurse.
When he returned to Iran, he was stripped of his passport because he participated in a protest against the Shah.
He was granted refugee status by Belgium in 1981 and tried to find his mom in Britain. He left his identification papers on the ship in the belief that he wouldn't need them anymore.
After being held in the UK and sent back to France, he settled at Paris' Charles de Gaulle Airport.
He slept on a red plastic bench for years, making friends with airport workers, showering in staff facilities, and writing in his diary.
He was nicknamed Lord Alfred by the staff.
The years of living in the windowless space took a toll on his mental state, according to those who befriended him.
The doctor at the airport in the 1990s was worried about his physical and mental health. He was compared to a prisoner incapable of living on the outside.
A court in France ruled in 1992 that Nasseri could not be kicked out of the airport.
According to reports, French authorities offered Nasseri a place to live in France, but he turned it down because he wanted to go back to England.
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