# La nona configurazione (1980)

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**Original title**: *The Ninth Configuration*
**Runtime**: 118 min
**Genres**: Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Mystery, Horror
**Directed by**: William Peter Blatty
**Written by**: William Peter Blatty
**Starring**: Stacy Keach, Scott Wilson, Jason Miller, Ed Flanders, Neville Brand, George DiCenzo

> *How do you fight a war called madness?*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Moonlight through castle bars, the stone cold.

A psychiatrist listens as madmen act out Christ’s passion, war games, a rabbit in the chapel.

Blatty’s razor-sharp satire sees heaven in the asylum’s madness.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, cerebral, paranoid, unhinged

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