Legendary movie tough guy Scott Glenn takes center stage at the 32nd Oldenburg Film Festival, which opens Sept. 10 with the world premiere of Hank Bedfords Eugene the Marine, starring the 86-year-old character actor in a rare leading role.

The 16mm-shot, retro-tinged thriller sees Glenn playing a former Marine whose life begins to unravel when his son tries to force him from his longtime family home while a string of murders terrorizes his community. Joining Glenn in the cast are Jim Gaffigan, Annette OToole, Shioli Kutsuna and Jeremy Bobb. Oldenburg will also pay tribute to Glenn with a retrospective of his career highlights, including James Bridges Urban Cowboy (1980), John Frankenheimers The Challenge (1982), Jonathan Demmes The Silence of the Lambs (1991) and Ken Loachs Carlas Song (1996).

For more than five decades, Glenn has been the character actors character actor, working with the worlds greatest directors Robert Altman, Michael Mann, John Frankenheimer, Francis Ford and Sofia Coppola and alongside the likes of Marlon Brando, Sir Laurence Olivier, Jodie Foster and Denzel Washington. His credits, from Apocalypse Now to The Right Stuff, from The Hunt for Red October to The Silence of the Lambs and Training Day, are a tribute to his talent and enduring cinematic legacy.

Scott Glenn with Walton Goggins in The White Lotus Max More recently, Glenns become a small-screen presence, with roles in The Leftovers, Daredevil, Bad Monkey and Season 3 of The White Lotus. His turn as the titular resort owner earned him his first Emmy nomination, for outstanding guest actor in a drama series.

The premiere of Eugene the Marine marks Bedfords return to Oldenburg nearly a decade after debuting his first feature, Dixieland, at the German indie fest in 2015. Glenn, Bedford, producer Stephen Vincent and cast members will attend the premiere and festival events from Sept. 1014.