Driving without a license and hit and run after an accident are crimes for which you must be accountable.

For judge Jacobi (Sebastian Koch), a man of honor, there is no doubt about it.

He is not one of those who throw principles and legal principles overboard, not even for his son: "Your Honour" is the appropriate title for the six-part thriller series (directed by David Nawrath), which varies the question of the price of morality and excitingly told.

If the accident victim were someone else, what advice would Jacobi have given his son?

to cover up the crime?

Hardly likely.

But the case is special.

The seriously injured in the artificial coma is not just anyone, but Slatan Sailovic (Niko Lukic).

Some time ago, Jacobi sentenced his father Radan (Marek Wlodarczyk) to twelve years in prison.

For his role in the spectacular trial, which dealt with the crimes of the Serbian clan that dominates organized crime in Innsbruck, the judge was hailed as a hero and had to be temporarily placed under police protection.

Since then he has been on the hit list of professional villains.

It's about revenge

A calculable risk for himself, as Jacobi says.

But now it's about the life of his son Julian (Taddeo Kufus), whose mother committed suicide two years ago.

The Sailovics' modus operandi is not just an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.

It's about revenge.

So no one is allowed to identify the son as the driver of the accident.

The judge does not yet know that DNA material and an asthma inhaler were found at the scene.

Jacobi makes the first fatal decisions in seconds.

Franz Brunner (Sascha Gersak), an old acquaintance from customs at the Brenner Pass, is supposed to dispose of the damaged car.

He recommends the petty criminal Sascha Zuber (Jack Hofer).

Zuber is caught by the police.

Gone stupid.

Jacobi's sense of order and justice is still stirring.

With Lisa Schwarz (Lena Kalisch), he gets Zuber a defense attorney, knowing full well that the prison bush drums are already preparing the person in custody for shooting.

However, the Sailovic family is still assuming an attack on Slatan.

The "butcher" Uli Lindner (Tobias Moretti with a dreadful hairstyle), butcher and drug trafficker, and his man for the rough work, Muhr (Rainer Bock), meanwhile have lost a delivery to the 'Ndrangheta.

The driver is executed.

"Uncle" Jova Sailovic's (Ercan Durmaz) action is the prelude to an escalating gang war that the clan chief's clever, ruthless daughter Arija (Paula Beer), who has rushed from London to her brother's bedside, does not want to wage.

It's better to do a tabula rasa right away.

Nevertheless, Jacobi is targeted, as is the investigation by detective Gabriele Kirchner (Ursula Strauss).

The more new insights have to be suppressed, the violence necessary to cover them up becomes rampant, the more control and power as a judge slips away from him, the more nefarious and driven Jacobi himself acts.

He plays risky moves, betrays Franz, tries to run for the post of secretary general to the Minister of Justice Anton Kreidel (Andreas Lust), becomes a criminal and is unable to stop the avalanche that he has started.

Your Honor is an adaptation of the Israeli series Kvodo (2017) directed by Ron Ninio and Shlomo Mashiach.

There is also an American version of the story about the incorruptible judge who is willing to do anything to save his child.

This Austrian development is not just a remake (like "Your Honor" either), but reflects national conditions.

Anyone who remembers recent and older political scandals in the Alpine republic can find something relevant.

The look is dark from the start and gets darker and darker.

The music does the rest.

Anyone who thought that the events surrounding the "Ibiza video" had a humorous component will be met with their naked seriousness.

The father-and-son theme "Your Honour" varies in several constellations, once as a bitter mother-son relationship.

Christina Zuber (Gerti Drassl) and her son Sascha show what "family hell" can be.

Superbly played by Sebastian Koch and the ensemble, which includes Tobias Moretti in particular, great performances of selected meanness, the series grows from episode to episode into a reflection on integrity and family values.

Filmed chilled to chills, in wintry permafrost exteriors and oppressive valley views of the city of Innsbruck, preferably at night, warmth only comes into play in the courtroom interior and the judge's house.

Your honor

runs today from 8.15 p.m. (episodes 1-4) and tomorrow from 9.45 p.m. (episodes 5 and 6) in the first and in the ARD media library.