Dalagang Bukid

Dalagang Bukid English Country Maiden is a 1919 Filipino silent film directed by Jos Nepomuceno. It is the first Filipino feature film to be locally produced in the Philippines. Like all of Nepomucenos works, Dalagang Bukid is now a lost film.

Angelitas parents are blind to her reciprocated love for Cipriano, as their shortage of money and consumption by various vices gambling and cockfighting make Don Silvestres offer of marriage attractive. Don Silvestre is an old loan shark who visits cabarets and buys flowers from pretty young florists like Angelita. .Meanwhile, Angelita and her brothers, who are working as shoe shiners at the threshold of the Church of the Holy cross, maintain the expenses of the house and their parents vices with their labor. Don Silvestre, meanwhile, offers to arrange for Angelita to win a beauty contest in La Vanguardia in exchange for her hand in marriage. Her parents accept the offer and the date of the wedding is set for the next day, which will see the formal crowning of Angelita as the beauty queen. ........

Source: Wikipedia