Question: What novel that was published in 1851 was the inspiration for a film directed by Philipp Ramos? 

Context articles: Capitaine Achab
Naked Among Wolves (1963 film)
Vidas Secas (film)
Man on Fire (2004 film)
Auf Wiedersehen (film)
Moby-Dick
Bombs on Monte Carlo (1960 film)
Naked Among Wolves (2015 film)
Young Goethe in Love
Memoirs of Prison

Capitaine Achab (in English, "Captain Ahab") is a 2004 French short film directed by Philippe Ramos.
 It is an interpretation of "Moby-Dick" by Herman Melville.
 In the film, Albert falls in love with Louise, whose white skin is symbolized in his dreams by the whale Moby Dick.
 The film was presented at the Cannes Film Festival and Pantin in 2004.
Naked Among Wolves (German: "Nackt unter Wölfen" ) is a 1963 East German film directed by Frank Beyer and starring Erwin Geschonneck and Armin Mueller-Stahl.
 The film is based on author Bruno Apitz's 1958 novel by the same name.
 The film was remade in 2015 under the direction of Philipp Kadelbach.
Vidas Secas (] , meaning "Dry lives"; Pre-Reform spelling: "Vidas Sêcas") is a 1963 Brazilian drama film directed by Nelson Pereira dos Santos, and based on the 1938 novel of the same name by Graciliano Ramos.
 It tells the story of a poverty-stricken family in the dry Brazilian northeast.
Man on Fire is a 2004 British-American crime thriller film directed by Tony Scott from a screenplay by Brian Helgeland, and based on the 1980 novel of the same name by A. J. Quinnell.
 The novel had previously been adapted into a feature film in 1987.
 In this film, Denzel Washington portrays John Creasy, a despondent, alcoholic former CIA operative/U.S. Marine Corps Force Reconnaissance officer-turned mercenary and bodyguard, who goes on a revenge rampage after his charge, nine-year-old Lupita "Pita" Ramos (Dakota Fanning), is abducted in Mexico City.
 The supporting cast includes Christopher Walken, Radha Mitchell, Giancarlo Giannini, Marc Anthony, Rachel Ticotin and Mickey Rourke.
Auf Wiedersehen is a 1961 West German film directed by Harald Philipp and starring Gert Fröbe, Joachim Fuchsberger, Günter Pfitzmann, Werner Peters and Elke Sommer.
 It was based on a novel by Reinhold Pabel and features Louis Armstrong in a cameo role.
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is a novel by American writer Herman Melville, published in 1851 during the period of the American Renaissance.
 Sailor Ishmael tells the story of the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of the whaler "Pequod", for revenge on Moby Dick, the white whale that on the previous whaling voyage bit off Ahab's leg at the knee.
 The novel was a commercial failure and out of print at the time of the author's death in 1891, but during the 20th century, its reputation as a Great American Novel was established.
 William Faulkner confessed he wished he had written it himself, and D. H. Lawrence called it "one of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world", and "the greatest book of the sea ever written".
 "Call me Ishmael" is among world literature's most famous opening sentences.
Bombs on Monte Carlo (German:Bomben auf Monte Carlo) is a 1960 German comedy film directed by Georg Jacoby and starring Eddie Constantine, Marion Michael and Gunther Philipp.
 The film was based on a novel by Fritz Reck-Malleczewen which had already between adapted as a film in 1931 as "Monte Carlo Madness".
Naked Among Wolves (German: "Nackt unter Wölfen") is a 2015 German drama film directed by Philipp Kadelbach.
 It is based on the novel of the same name by Bruno Apitz, which was published in 1958 by the East German Publishing house.
 It was created for television, it is the third film version of the literary text after the 1963 version.
Young Goethe in Love (originally titled "Goethe!")
 is a 2010 German historical drama film directed by Philipp Stölzl and starring Alexander Fehling, Miriam Stein, and Moritz Bleibtreu.
 It is a fictionalized version of the early years of the poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and the events forming the basis of his novel "The Sorrows of Young Werther."
Memoirs of Prison (Portuguese: Memórias do Cárcere ) is a 1984 Brazilian drama film directed by Nelson Pereira dos Santos.
 It is based on "Memórias do Cárcere" an autobiographical novel by Graciliano Ramos, about the period he was incarcerated during the Vargas Era.
 The film was selected as the Brazilian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 57th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.