Errors of Youth

{{Short description|1978 Soviet drama film}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2020}}

{{Infobox film

| name = Errors of Youth

| image = Errors_of_Youth.jpg

| caption = Film poster

| director = Boris Frumin

| producer =

| writer = Boris Frumin
Eduard Topol

| starring = Nina Arkhipova
Nikolai Karachentsov
Marina Neyolova
Nikolai Penkov
Natalya Varley
Mikhail Vaskov

| music = Victor Lebedev

| cinematography = Aleksei Gambaryan

| editing = Tamara Denisova

| distributor =

| released = {{Film date|df=yes|1978}}

| runtime = 87 minutes

| country = Soviet Union

| language = Russian

| budget =

}}

Errors of Youth ({{langx|ru|Ошибки юности}}, Oshibki yunosti) is a Soviet drama film directed in 1978 by Boris Frumin.{{cite news |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/120429/The-Errors-of-Youth/overview |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121103090057/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/120429/The-Errors-of-Youth/overview |url-status=dead |archive-date=3 November 2012 |title=New York Times: The Errors of Youth (1978) |accessdate=11 November 2010|first=Walter |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=The New York Times |date=2012 |last=Goodman}} It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival.{{cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/263/year/1989.html |title=Festival de Cannes: Errors of Youth |accessdate=2 August 2009|work=festival-cannes.com}} The "critical realism" is reported to have delayed the release; Frumin left the Soviet Union in 1979 and was in 1988 invited back to complete it.