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.
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