•THE REAL VIKTOR NAVORSKI: Born in Iran in 1945. At the age of 29, Nasseri Karimi Nasseri travelled to Britain to study. Nasseri's father died and he was forced to return to Iran. Nasseri participated in protests against the Iranian government. He was expelled from Iran without a passport.
He travelled around Europe for four years seeking political asylum until the Belgium government granted him refugee status in 1981.
Later Nasseri decided to trave to England to search for long-lost relatives.
Unfortunately, in a French train station, he was mugged – losing his passport. Arriving at Heathrow Airport in 1988 without travel papers, authorities captured him and deported him back to France. Upon arriving in France, the authorities there also refused to accept him without a passport, but had no place to deport him to since there was no evidence of where he should be sent.
Nasseri could not step outside of the Charles de Gaulle Airport terminal and there he stayed, living in the airport, for the next 12 years.
Nasseri, currently in his mid-50s, stays in Terminal 1 of the Charles de Gaulle Airport.
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Steven Spielberg should have used the original true story which is far more interesting than the film, The Terminal. I would have even have watched it with subtitles...anything but Hanks....
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