Mr. Mergler's Gift

Mr. Mergler's Gift
Directed byBeverly Shaffer
Produced byGermaine Ying Gee Wong
StarringDaniel Mergler
Xin Ben Yu
CinematographyAndrei Khabad
Thomas Vámos
Edited byBenjamin Duffield
Production
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Running time
30 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

Mr. Mergler's Gift is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Beverly Shaffer and released in 2004.[1] The film is a portrait of Daniel Mergler, a 77-year-old music teacher in Montreal, Quebec, who has recently been diagnosed with terminal colon cancer, and Xin Ben Yu, a young piano prodigy who has just immigrated to Canada with her family, whom Mergler has decided to take on as his final student before his death.[1]

The film premiered at the 2004 Montreal World Film Festival.[2]

The film received a Genie Award nomination for Best Feature Length Documentary at the 25th Genie Awards in 2005.[3]

  1. ^ a b Bill Brownstein, "Life, love, music". Montreal Gazette, September 1, 2004.
  2. ^ Matthew Hays, "He's got the whole World in his hands". The Globe and Mail, August 26, 2004.
  3. ^ Jay Stone, "Genie nominees reflect diversity". Victoria Times-Colonist, February 9, 2005.