Kindertotenlieder constructs the chronology of the 2005 riots, starting with the death of Zyed Benna and Bouna Traoré, who were chased by the police, through to the curfew imposed by Sarkozy as Minister of the Interior. The film has borrowed its title from a group of poems written by Friedrich Rückert in 1834 following the death of his two children and later put into song by Gu...