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The search for the remains of the leaders of the resistance against the Habsburgs, executed on the Old Town Square in 1621. In 1621, the leaders of the Czech Estates' resistance against the Habsburgs were executed on the Old Town Square. Their heads were displayed on the old town bridge tower as a warning. However, they disappeared from there after ten years, because the Saxons, who then briefly occupied Prague, allowed the families to bury the remains of the executed. This was done in secret and the final resting place of the severed heads remained unknown for centuries. Director Petr Kotek and the staff of Czech Television followed the tracks in the form of conjectures, speculations and legends, and the audience thus has the opportunity not only to repeat the history of the estate uprising and its tragic end, but also to witness an exciting search with the participation of historians, archaeologists, geophysicists and Jan Vodňanský , who took on the role of the show's guide.