Sokourov, whose Faust won Venice's Golden Lion last year, received $20,000 (�15,000) toward the development of The Louvre Under the Occupation, a feature billed as exploring "the relationship between art and power."
Sokourov knows his way around a museum, having directed the documentary Russian Ark, a dramatization of Russian history set entirely in the Russian State Hermitage Museum and done in one continuous shot.