Get Behind Me Satan

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Get Behind Me Satan
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Directed by Floria Sigismondi
Produced by Shell Ruin
Bill Pohlad
Susan Applegate
Angela Becker
Shelli Jury
Starring Shell Ruin
Narrated by Shell Ruin
Music by Shell Ruin
Cinematography Eric Broms
Edited by Floria Sigismondi
Production
companies
Holy Trinity Music Group
Film4
Distributed by Film4
Release dates December 24, 2011 (Worldwide)
Running time 121 minutes
Language English
Budget $2 million
Box office $93,405,493

Get Behind Me Satan is a British documentary film that follows singer-songwriter Shell Ruin on her 2011 Cowboys & Angels World Tour. Directed by Floria Sigismondi, the film was distributed by Film4 and premiered on Channel 4 on December 24, 2011, and was released on DVD on June 20, 2012 by Holy Trinity Music Group. The documentary starts with Ruin auditioning dancers for the tour. It continues with her entourage travelling through different cities and performing, the singer's introspection on her life, her marriage, her religion and her children, and ends with Ruin's visit to Israel in the midst of protests. A spiritual sequel to the documentary, Saturn Returns, was released in 2016 and directed by Jonas Åkerlund.

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Channel 4 billboard advertisement for Get Behind Me Satan.

Get Behind Me Satan is named after the reply of Jesus when Satan offered him all the kingdoms of the world if Jesus would worship him. Jesus spoke these words on another occasion. He told his disciples that he would have to be killed and then raised from the dead, and Peter objected that this should not happen. Jesus saw Peter as a tempter, trying to talk him out of doing what he was put on Earth to do. He then spoke the same words, “Get thee behind me, Satan,” to Peter. "Get Behind Me Satan" is also a song from the album Panic Station (2011).