Yes this is a normal phrase meaning simply other people and nothing to do with ‘the other’ which has a different meaning in English. Another example of this is

Yes this is a normal phrase meaning simply other people and nothing to do with ‘the other’ which has a different meaning in English. Another example of this is the film ‘Au revoir les enfants’ which a literal translation would render as ‘Goodbye the children’ but is really just ‘Goodbye children’.