Two celebrities meet for the first time to spend an evening in each others and the camera's company.

"Durch die Nacht mit... " (2002) (a.k.a. "Into the night with...") is an award winning, 60-minute series produced for ZDF/ARTE since 2002. The series matches artists from different fields to spend an evening together in a city of their choice. The idea is to create a forum for artists to exchange ideas and also show them as real people. Various locations and surprises evoke spontaneous reactions and interactions between the artists, cameras that operate fly-on-the-wall-like add to the unusual high level of authenticity and realness. Into the night with has been awarded the Adolf Grimme Preis Spezial, Germany's most renowned TV-award.—anonymous