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.
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.
"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.
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.
Eisenberg, who wrote ... like my aunt and even filming at the home my family lived in in Poland. Kieran, what made you want to join Jesse in telling this story? KC: I hate saying this in front ...
That being said, Culkin’s co-star, Jesse Eisenberg, who also wrote ... follows the cousins as they embark on a Holocaust tour of Poland in memory of their grandmother, a Holocaust survivor ...
Jesse Eisenberg, the director and star of new film ... which stars himself and Kieran Culkin as Jewish American cousins who travel to Poland to visit the childhood home of their grandmother ...
With a Golden Globe already pocketed, Jesse Eisenberg’s beautifully ... the oldest grave in Poland. Eisenberg’s idea of filming within the sombre surrounds of a concentration camp initially ...