While Interviewgate has come and gone in the United States, the freedom of speech battle that the Seth Rogen comedy has generated will soon spread to Europe. With The Interview set to hit theaters throughout Germany on February 5th, North Korean officials have mistakenly lashed out at the Berlin International Film Festival for “instigating terrorism” in a strongly worded statement. The Hollywood Reporter writes that the famed film festival, which coincidentally kicks off the same day as The Interview’s German release, has nothing to do with the film’s arrival in that country. Somewhere along the line, because of the February 5th start dates, North Korea’s Foreign Ministry misinterpreted that The Interview was an official entrant in the 65th annual Berlinale. As a result, North Korean’s state-run broadcast issued a statement demanding that the film not screen at the festival, which it’s not and never was scheduled to.
