Hotel Coolgardie

Hotel Coolgardie Details:

Hotel Coolgardie Cast & Characters:

• Nicolina as Self
• Stephanie as Self
• Peter Coffey as Self
• John Joseph Lowe as Self – Canman

Storyline:

On a dusty highway between Australia’s most isolated city and its largest gold pit lies Coolgardie – where the arrival every three months of a new pair of foreign backpackers to work the only bar in town is a keenly anticipated event. Fresh off the plane and lured by the promise of an authentic outback experience, Finnish travellers Lina and Steph find themselves en route to a dot on the map – to pour beers, replenish depleted travel funds, and live amongst the locals. But their working holiday quickly deteriorates into a baptism of fire. Harangued by their new boss, relentlessly pursued by booze-addled patrons, and prey to the madness and malaise of an environment as claustrophobic as it is isolated – the girls soon realise that to meet expectations out here, they’ll need to do more than just serve drinks.

About Hotel Coolgardie:

The documentary’s filmmaker first discovered the outback hotel about fifteen years prior to the doc debuting. He was travelling through the country town and happened to be there at the time of a changeover between female temporary barmaid bartenders where two new ones were replacing two who were leaving after their three month tenure.

The documentary was filmed during 2012 but was not first released until 2016. The later feature film The Royal Hotel (2023) is inspired by this documentary.

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