Eisenberg's film follows two cousins on a Jewish heritage tour of Poland, which includes a stop at the Majdanek death camp.

Jesse Eisenberg is hunched forward in his seat in a Soho hotel ... socially awkward – on a pilgrimage to Poland with his cousin (Kieran Culkin) to revisit a painful part of his family history.

"Jesse Eisenberg has said that he was inspired to ... in her will for him and his cousin Benji (Kieran Culkin) to visit Poland, where she narrowly escaped death in a concentration camp.

KIERAN CULKIN and Jesse Eisenberg at Sundance for the screening of their film ‘A Real Pain’, about Jewish cousins on a heritage tour of Poland after the death of their beloved Holocaust ...

Best known for this starring role as Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network, Jesse Eisenberg writes ... but decided to relocate it to Poland when he saw an advertisement for “Auschwitz tours ...

Jesse Eisenberg’s A Real Pain begins and ends ... Their grandmother’s death sends the cousins to Poland, ostensibly to honour her memory by reconnecting with their Jewish roots.

Jesse Eisenberg is hunched forward in his seat in ... socially awkward – on a pilgrimage to Poland with his cousin (Kieran Culkin) to revisit a painful part of his family history.

"I would call you the target audience, but you're like the target human being for the movie," Jesse Eisenberg laughs as ... into a Jewish family in pre-WWII Poland, her extraordinary life story ...

open image in gallery Kieran Culkin and Jesse Eisenberg in ‘A Real Pain ... near the concentration camps in Poland. The house they make their way to once belonged to Eisenberg’s ancestors.

Set to an eloquent and frequently melancholy soundtrack of Chopin’s piano music, A Real Pain is a bittersweet story about two Jewish cousins, Benji and David Kaplan (Kieran Culkin and Eisenberg), who ...

The Succession actor stars alongside Jesse Eisenberg in the film about cousins who take a trip to Poland to see the country their grandmother left. Culkin says taking notes from a co-star, who ...

In 2008, when Jesse Eisenberg and his wife, Anna Strout, visited Poland, they finished their trip in the village of Krasnystaw, in front of the home where Eisenberg’s family had lived until 1939.