If you love the Strugatskys - do not look at them - you will spit like me.
Strugatsky is very unlucky with film adaptations, and I understand why. Due to their cult status, only very ambitious directors take on this, and they really want to bring something of their own.
I don't like Stalker Tarkovsky, who made a rabid Redrik Schuhart a low-will reflective Stalker.
And here Lopushansky not only turned Banev into no one understands, he also distorted the plot, replacing the central theme of the book (the ruthlessness of progress) with a banal political pamphlet about the opposition of bad authorities and good opposition children.