Martin Scorsese’s Hugo is set primarily in which Paris railway station?

Martin Scorsese’s Hugo is set primarily in Gare Montparnasse, the Paris railway station where the orphan Hugo Cabret secretly lives and maintains the station’s clocks.

The 2011 film adapts Brian Selznick’s illustrated novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret. Its story combines a young boy’s mystery with the history of early cinema, especially the work of French filmmaker Georges Méliès, played by Ben Kingsley.

The station setting is fictionalized for the film, which uses elaborate sets and digital effects to create a richly detailed version of 1930s Paris. A famous 1895 train crash at Gare Montparnasse is echoed in the film’s visual world, although the movie is not a direct retelling of that historical accident. Hugo received five Academy Awards for technical and artistic achievements.