Opposants poétiques is a testimony to what dissidence was like in Czechoslovakia under the Communist regime, through the stories and writings of two friends, poets and dissidents, who experienced the resistance from the inside and who, victims of incessant bullying, had to resign themselves to exile in France.
Their stories, memories and impressions blend and complement each other. Their subjective, offbeat view of dissidence and clandestine samizdat publishing plunges us into a reality that is both terrible and absurd, that of daily life in a totalitarian regime, seen from the inside and then from the outside. Numerous archive images illustrate their story. They mingle with re-filmed scenes from the past, in a dreamlike, poetic mode: fleeting, non-realistic visions, as if conjured up from memory.

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