Mr. Mergler's Gift

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Mr. Mergler's Gift
Directed by Beverly Shaffer
Produced byGermaine Ying Gee Wong
StarringDaniel Mergler
Xin Ben Yu
CinematographyAndrei Khabad
Thomas Vámos
Edited by Benjamin Duffield
Production
company
Release date
2004 (MWFF
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]

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References

  1. 1 2 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.