Thursday, July 9, 2009 - 7:30 pm
Portage Theater, 4050 N. Milwaukee, Chicago

Free Event!  Bring guests!

John Patrick Patti, the film's producer will give a Q & A after the screening!

This is a documentary about one of the world’s most important sexual icons. Interviews with Larry King and commentary from America’s foremost sexologists explore Xaviera’s rise and fall, her deportation from the United States and her political significance to the Feminist Movement and Sexual Revolution of the 1970’s.   Xaviera Hollander is one of the world’s best selling authors.  Her revolutionary masterpiece about the exploits of a call girl who became the world’s most famous madam, is now in it’s 28th printing, having sold over 20 million copies. Nineteen books were to follow.

Born Vera de Vries in Surabaya Indonesia in 1943, Xaviera’s first three and a half years of life were spent in a Japanese concentration camp.  Xaviera became one of Europe’s top secretaries and got a job at the Dutch Consulate in New York City.  In the seventies, when love-ins and the Vietnam War were making the headlines, Xaviera was teaching the world about sex and sexual freedom.  Her life is revealed in great detail by the award winning filmmaker Robert Dunlap and producer John Patrick Patti.

Free Event!  Bring guests!