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

"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.

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.

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.

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.

With this film, director Jesse Eisenberg masterfully navigates the ... embark on a journey to Poland. The trip, ostensibly to explore their grandmother's Holocaust history, becomes a vehicle ...

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 ...

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.