Pig and Fox are obvious metaphors for Soviet political anti-heroes.
The restoration of the film was completed in 2016, and the first screening of the restored version took place on September 30, 2017, as part of the Linoleum International Contemporary Animation and Media Art Festival (Kyiv, Ukraine).
The work on the creation of the film was started in 1928 in the Kyiv branch of the VUFKU film studio by Vyacheslav Levandovskiy, one of the founders of Ukrainian animation. "Tuk-tuk and his friend Zhuk" was supposed to be his first Ukrainian sound animation film. However, Levandovskiy was unable to complete the work due to technical difficulties in performing the assigned tasks, and the film was already completed by Levandovskiy's students in 1935.
For a long time, the film was considered lost, it was purchased by the Dovzhenko Centre (Ukraine) from the State Film Fund of Russia only in 2013.