Radek Ładczuk (b. 1976) is a graduate of the Cinematography Faculty at the Łódź Film School. He has worked on numerous feature films, documentaries, and commercial projects, earning recognition for his distinctive visual style and receiving multiple Polish and international award nominations. He was awarded the Golden Duck by Film magazine for Suicide Room, and won Best Cinematography for Princess at the Jerusalem Film Festival, among other honors.
Radek is the cinematographer of The Babadook, widely acclaimed as one of the best horror films of the 21st century. His international credits include the Turkish drama In Flame (Kaygi), My Days of Mercy starring Ellen Page, and The Nightingale directed by Jennifer Kent, which won the Special Jury Prize in Competition at the 75th Venice International Film Festival.
In 2019, he reunited with director Jan Komasa for Suicide Room: The Hater, which went on to win Best International Narrative Feature at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Recent projects include the feature The Surger and Nocebo, both films directed by Lorcan Finnegan; My Neighbour Adolfdirected by Leon Prudovsky; and Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities—episode The Murmuring, directed by Jennifer Kent. He also worked on The Peasants (Chłopi), directed by DK Welchman and Hugh Welchman, alongside Kamil Polak and Szymon Kuriata. Produced in a unique hand-painted animation technique and based on the Nobel Prize-winning novel by Władysław Reymont, the film won the Audience Award and Special Jury Award at the Gdynia Film Festival.
Radek’s work on Pietro Castellitto’s Enea took him to the Competition lineup of the 80th Venice Film Festival, where the premiere was met with an eight-minute standing ovation.
His latest project, The Surfer—directed by Lorcan Finnegan and led by Nicolas Cage—was selected for the Midnight Screenings at the 77th Cannes Film Festival.
Radek earned an AACTA (Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts) nomination for his remarkable cinematography on the film.
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