The Dead Don't Hurt

Viggo Mortensen directed the timeless romance of two fatally wayward lovers, in which he and Vicky Krieps (Corset) co-starred.

The Dead Don't Hurt
United States 2023
  • Czech
130 min.
12+
  • This film is available in the following territories: Czechia.
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Three years after making his directorial debut with the impressive drama Falling, the multi-talented Viggo Mortensen is back in the director’s chair with this quietly subversive period romance set in the American West. Mortensen also wrote the script, composed the music, and stars as the Danish immigrant Holger, a sheriff in a dusty Nevada town in the mid-19th century. Mortensen’s focused and subdued direction is a well-crafted homage to classic Westerns, updated with the confidence of an auteur to include a female protagonist at the center of the action – the independent free-thinker Vivienne (Vicky Krieps), who finds in Holger both a partner and a kindred spirit striving to live a dignified life in a world of violent primitives.

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Credits
Director: Viggo Mortensen
Screenplay: Viggo Mortensen
Cinematography: Marcel Zyskind
Music: Viggo Mortensen
Sound: Morten Groth Brandt
Editing: Peder Pedersen
Production Design: Carlos Benassini, Jason Clarke, Carol Spier
Producer: Viggo Mortensen, Regina Solórzano, Jeremy Thomas
Co-production: Angela Blair, Mark David, Gabriel Del Valle, Gia Galligani
Costumes: Anne Dixon
Cast: Vicky Krieps, Viggo Mortensen, Solly McLeod, Garret Dillahunt, Danny Huston, W. Earl Brown, Michael Weaver, Nadia Litz, Alex Breaux, Shane Graham
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  • This film is available in the following territories: Czechia.