The Dead Don't Hurt is a 2023 Western film written, directed, produced, composed by and starring Viggo Mortensen. It also stars Vicky Krieps, Solly McLeod, Garret Dillahunt, Colin Morgan, Ray McKinnon, Luke Reilly, Atlas Green and Danny Huston.

The film premiered at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival.^[4]

In the 1860s, French Canadian Vivienne Le Coudy falls in love with Danish immigrant to North America Holger Olsen in San Francisco but they are separated and kept apart by the Civil War.^[5][6]

• Viggo Mortensen as Holger Olsen
• Vicky Krieps as Vivienne Le Coudy
• Garret Dillahunt as Alfred Jeffries
• Solly McLeod as Weston Jeffries
• Danny Huston as Mayor Rudolph Schiller
• Nadia Litz as Martha Gilkyson
• W. Earl Brown as Alan Kendall
• Marc Dennis as Fishmonger Stevens
• John Getz as Reverend Simpson
• Ray McKinnon as Judge Blagden

In October 2022, it was revealed that Mortensen would direct and star in a film he had written, with Vicky Krieps, Solly McLeod, Danny Huston, Tom Bateman, Lance Henriksen, and W. Earl Brown also appearing in the film. Mortensen worked once again with a number of people who worked with him on his previous films including Marcel Zyskind, production designer Carol Spier and art director Jason Clarke, and costume designer Anne Dixon.^[7]

Krieps described working with Mortensen on the film to The Times as "In the world of westerns there were not many women. So that was very tough. Of all men he is very soft and open and very 'there'. But still it reminded me why I like to work with women".^[8] The Dead Don't Hurt began filming in Canada on 12 October 2022 with Canadian locations including Ontario and British Columbia, with filming also taking place in Durango, Mexico. The project is a joint Talipot Studio, Recorded Picture and Perceval Pictures production.^[9] Filming was reportedly finished in December 2022.^[10]

HanWay Films is handling worldwide sales.^[11][2] In February 2024, Shout! Studios acquired North American distribution rights to the film.^[1] It is scheduled to be released in the United States on May 31, 2024.^[12]

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 85% of 21 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6.4/10.^[13]