

Orphaned and alone except for an uncle, Hugo Cabret lives in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. Hugo's job is to oil and maintain the station's clocks, but to him, his more important task is to protect a broken automaton and notebook left to him by his late father. Accompanied by the goddaughter of an embittered toy merchant, Hugo embarks on a quest to solve the mystery of the automaton and find a place he can call home.
Direction
Scorsese's first and only 3D film — every frame is a diorama.
Cinematography
Robert Richardson shoots Paris like a dream you half-remember.
Production
Gigantic functioning train station set built from scratch.

Director
Martin Scorsese
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The automaton really exists — it's in the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire in Switzerland and inspired the novel.
Scorsese made this to fund The Wolf of Wall Street, but it's arguably more autobiographical — both he and Méliès were magicians who became filmmakers.