Viggo Mortensen scores his own movies. His music background is a saga in itself. Viggo Mortensen, the director, writer and composer of “The Dead Don’t Hurt.” Oh, yes — he acts in it too.

Viggo Mortensen Expands On Why He Saddled Up For His Western ‘The Dead Don’t Hurt’ – Munich International Film Festival. Stewart Clarke. Thu, July 4, 2024 at 11:13 AM UTC.

Viggo Mortensen has been a working actor since the 1980s, securing his first speaking role in the 1985 Harrison Ford film Witness, but he’s been a fan of westerns for most of his life, even ...

SIMON: Viggo Mortensen's film, "The Dead Don't Hurt," doesn't move the camera into battlefields. It stays with Vivienne to tell stories of her battles at home. Vivienne is played by Vicky Krieps.

You can’t immediately tell whether this film is trying to be an old-fashioned Western or a revisionist one. It was written and directed by Viggo Mortensen, who stars alongside Vicky Krieps.